Meditation on Emptiness

Budismo
Budismo tibetano
1165 páginas
Publicado: April 1, 2014
ISBN: 9780861717057
Editorial: Wisdom Publications
Jeffrey Hopkins

In this major work, Jeffrey Hopkins, on e of the world's foremost scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, offers a clear exposition of the Prasangika-Madhyamaka view of emptiness as presented in the Ge-luk-ba tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In bringing this remarkable and complex philosophy to life, he describes the meditational practices by which emptiness can be realized and shows throughout that, far from being merely abstract, these teachings can be vivid and utterly practical. Presented in six parts, this book is indispensable for those wishing to delve deeply into Buddhist thought.

Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught Tibetan Studies and Tibetan language for more than thirty years. He received a BAmagna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, trained for five years at the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America (now the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center) in New Jersey, and received a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. From 1979 to 1989 he served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English on lecture tours in the U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, Great Britain, and Switzerland. He has published more than twenty-five books, includingMeditation on Emptiness, a seminal work of English language scholarship on Tibetan Madhyamaka thought, as well as translations of works by Tsongkhapa, Dolpopa, and His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At the University of Virginia he founded programs in Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies and served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: MEDITATION
    • Purpose and Motivation
    • Self: The Opposite of Selflessness
    • Meditation: Identifying Self
    • Meditative Investigation
    • Dependent-Arising
    • Diamond Slivers
    • Realization
    • Calm Abiding
    • Special Insight
    • Tantra
    • Buddhahood
  • PART TWO: REASONING INTO REALITY
    • Introduction
    • The Diamond Slivers
    • The Four Extremes
    • The Four Alternatives
    • Dependent-Arising
    • Refuting a Self of Persons
  • PART THREE: THE BUDDHIST WORLD
    • Introduction
    • The Selfless
    • Dependent-Arising of Cyclic Existence
    • The Four Noble Truths
  • PART FOUR: SYSTEMS
    • Self
    • Non-Buddhist Systems
    • Hīnyāna
    • History of the Mahāyāna
    • Chittamātra
    • Mādhyamika
  • PART FIVE: PRĀSAṄGIKA-MĀDHYAMIKA
    • The Prāsaṅgika School
    • Debate
    • Bhāvaviveka’s Criticism of Buddhapālita
    • Chandrakīrti’s Defense of Buddhapālita
    • Chandrakīrti’s Refutation of Bhāvaviveka
    • Prāsaṅgika in Tibet
    • Validation of Phenomena
    • Meditative Reasoning
  • PART SIX: TRANSLATION: EMPTINESS IN THE PRĀSAṄGIKA SYSTEM
    • Introduction
    • Background
    • Interpretation of Scripture
    • The Object of Negation
    • Refuting Inherently Existent Production
    • Other Types of Production
    • Dependent-Arising
    • Refuting a Self of Persons
  • APPENDICES
    • Types of Awareness
    • Other Interpretations of Dependent-Arising
    • Modes of Division of the Vaibhāṣhika Schools
    • Negatives
    • Proof Statements