All in all, this is an excellent piece of scholarship which significantly contributes to our understanding of Prasangika-Madhyamaka.
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, Ghent University, Religion
The Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the monk and scholar Śāntideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva. Over one thousand years after Śāntideva's composition, Künzang Sönam (1823-1905) produced the most extensive commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva ever written. This book is the first English translation of Künzang Sönam's overview of Śāntideva's notoriously difficult chapter on wisdom.
The ninth chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva is philosophically very rich but forbiddingly technical, and can only be read well with a good commentary. Künzang Sönam's commentary offers a unique and complete introduction to the view of Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka, the summit of Buddhist philosophy in Tibet, as articulated by Tsongkhapa. It brings Śāntideva's text, and Tsongkhapa's interpretation of Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka, into conversation with a vast Buddhist literature from India and Tibet. By articulating the integral relationship between emptiness and interdependence, this text formulates a sustained and powerful argument for emptiness as a metaphysical basis of bodhisattva ethics. This volume makes the ninth chapter accessible to English-speaking teachers and students of the Way of the Bodhisattva.
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Acknowledgments
Part I: Translator's Introduction
The Way of the Bodhisattva
Life of Künzang Sönam
Wisdom: The Ninth Chapter
Part II: The Translation
Bibliography
"All in all, this is an excellent piece of scholarship which significantly contributes to our understanding of Prasangika-Madhyamaka." -- Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, Ghent University, Religion
Douglas Duckworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University. He is the author of Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition (2008) and Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings (2011). He also introduced and translated Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Classic by Bötrül (2011). He is the
author of Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature (OUP 2019).
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Selling point: The first English translation of Künzang Sönam's commentary on the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva
Selling point: Brings the Way of the Bodhisattva into conversation with a vast Buddhist literature from India and Tibet
Selling point: Makes an important source frequently referenced in the Dalai Lama's lectures available in English for first time
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ISBN
9780197826751
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
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481 gr
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234 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
20 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Heftet
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324
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