Groundless Paths : (Record no. 14236)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781559393751 |
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| Transcribing agency | Tshering |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Groundless Paths : |
| Remainder of title | the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras, the Ornament of clear realization, and its commentaries in the Tibetan Nyingma tradition / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | translated by Karl Brunnhölzl. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Snow Lion Publications, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 898 p. : |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical and index.<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the prajNaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the prajNaparamita sutras-the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekaBuddhas, and bodhisattvas-but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras-emptiness-and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through Buddhahood. Groundless Paths contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries from the perspective of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. This study consists mainly of translations of Maitreya's famous text and two commentaries on it by Patrul Rinpoche. These are supplemented by three short texts on the paths and bhumis by the same author, as well as extensive excerpts from commentaries by six other Nyingma masters, including Mipham Rinpoche. Thus this book helps close a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the prajNaparamita sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. Arya Maitreya's Ornament of Clear Realization, with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries, presents the complex dynamics of the path to liberation as a succession of realizations of the empty nature of all phenomena. This presentation is a powerful antidote to whatever two-dimensional views we might hold about spiritual experience and the journey to enlightenmen |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | criticism, interpretation |
| Form subdivision | early works to 1800. |
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| Personal name | Brunnhölzl, Karl . |
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| Materials specified | Groundless Paths : |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://10.10.80.15/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=fadafff1060fde9b06858db166078dcf |
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