Realizing Emptiness: The Madhyamaka Cultivation of Insight

by Gen Lamrimpa; Wallace, B. Alan; Posman, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9781559391184
• ISBN10: 1559391189
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

Trained in Buddhist philosophy and mediatation by some of the greatest Gelugpa masters of the twentieth century, the Tibetan contemplative Gen Lamrimpa went on to spend some twenty years in solitary retreat.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
A Contented Mind: The Life of Gen Lamrimpa	9	(8)
Introduction	17	(14)
The Significance of Compassion and Insight	17	(4)
Suitable Teachers and Students for Teachings on Emptiness	21	(2)
Provisional and Definitive Teachings within Buddhism	23	(1)
The Lineage of these Teachings	24	(4)
Scriptural Sources for these Teachings	28	(3)
How Phenomena Are Established as Being Conceptually Designated	31	(16)
The Fusion of Word-Based Ideas with Experience-Based Ideas	32	(2)
The Fusion of the Object with the Generic Idea of the Object	34	(7)
Conventional Agreement	41	(3)
Can We Establish Things without Referring to Them?	44	(3)
How One Grasps onto True Existence	47	(14)
Two Types of Ignorance	50	(4)
Three Ways of Apprehending an Object	54	(3)
The Ignorant View Concerning a Transitory Assembly	57	(4)
The Four Essential Points	61	(26)
The First Essential Point	61	(1)
The Attended Object and the Attributed Object	61	(6)
Conventional and Ultimate Analysis	67	(2)
The Second Essential Point	69	(2)
The Third Essential Point	71	(2)
Valid and Invalid Ways of Postulating the Self	73	(3)
Single and Multiple Phenomena	76	(1)
The Fourth Essential Point	77	(1)
Simple and Complex Negations	77	(1)
Review of the Meditation on Emptiness	78	(8)
Personal and Phenomenal Identitylessness	86	(1)
The Prasangika View of How Phenomena Exist	87	(18)
Three Criteria for Designating the Existence of Phenomena	88	(6)
How All Phenomena Appear Like Illusions	94	(1)
The Dependence of Phenomena	95	(4)
The Criteria for Realizing Emptiness	99	(6)
Appendix I: Dzogchen	105	(12)
Appendix II: Madhyamaka and Dzogchen	117