In Praise Of Dharmadhatu

by NAGARJUNATHIRD KARMAPA

• ISBN13: 9781559392860
• ISBN10: 155939286X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Snow Lion

Summary

All beings have the potential to recognize their true nature, their buddha nature, explicated here by Nagarjuna, Buddhism's single most important philosopher, with commentary from an eminent fourteenth-century sage.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. 7
An Aspiration	p. 9
Foreword	p. 11
Foreword	p. 13
Preface	p. 17
Nagarjuna and His Works	p. 21
Who Was Nagarjuna?	p. 21
What Did Nagarjuna Write or Not Write?	p. 22
Various Views on Nagarjuna's Scriptural Legacy and Its Scope	p. 30
Who or What Is Praised in Nagarjuna's Praises?	p. 43
A Brief "History" of Luminous Mind	p. 57
A Terminological Map for the Dharmadhatustava and Its Commentaries	p. 57
The Eight Consciousnesses	p. 57
The World Is Imagination	p. 59
Mind Has Three Natures	p. 60
A Fundamental Change of State	p. 63
The Expanse of the Basic Element of Being	p. 63
Self-Awareness and Personal Experience	p. 64
Having the Heart of a Tathagata	p. 66
Luminous Mind	p. 67
Luminous Mind and Tathagatagarbha	p. 68
The Eighth Karmapa on the Dharmadhatu as "Disposition" and Tathagata Heart	p. 83
Is Buddha Nature an Eternal Soul or Sheer Emptiness?	p. 102
The Dharmadhatustava	p. 113
An Overview of the Basic Themes of the Dharmadhatustava	p. 113
Translation: In Praise of Dharmadhatu	p. 117
The Significance of the Dharmadhatustava in the Indo-Tibetan Tradition	p. 130
The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, and His Commentary on the Dharmadhatustava	p. 157
A Short Biography	p. 157
Some Preliminary Remarks on Rangjung Dorje's View	p. 159
On Rangjung Dorje's Commentary on the Dharmadhatustava	p. 193
Other Tibetan Commentaries on the Dharmadhatustava	p. 198
Translation of Rangjung Dorje's Commentary	p. 206
Outline of Rangjung Dorje's Commentary	p. 307
Existing Translations of the Praises Attributed to Nagarjuna in the Tengyur	p. 311
Translations of the Remaining Praises	p. 313
Glossary: English-Sanskrit-Tibetan	p. 325
Glossary: Tibetan-Sanskrit-English	p. 329
Bibliography	p. 333
Endnotes	p. 344
Index	p. 426
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