Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and TibetTo enter the Mahayana Buddhist path to enlightenment is to seek both to become free from our dualistic, deluded world and to remain actively engaged in that world until all others are free. How are these two apparently contradictory qualities to be embodied in the attainment of buddhahood (dharmakaya)? How can one's present practice accomplish that? These questions underlie a millennium-old controversy over buddhahood in India and Tibet that centers around a cherished text, the Abhisamayalamkara. Makransky shows how the Abhisamayalamkara's composite redaction, from Abhidharma, Prajnaparamita, and Yogacara traditions, permitted its interpreters to perceive different aspects of those traditions as central in its teaching of buddhahood. This enabled Indians and Tibetans to read very different perspectives on enlightenment into the Abhisamayalamkara, through which they responded to the questions in startlingly different ways. The author shows how these perspectives provide alternative ways to resolve a logical tension at the heart of Mahayana thought, inscribed in the doctrine that buddhahood paradoxically transcends and engages our worlds simultaneously. |
Contents
IV | 1 |
V | 3 |
VI | 7 |
VII | 9 |
VIII | 17 |
IX | 23 |
X | 29 |
XI | 39 |
XLI | 185 |
XLII | 187 |
XLIII | 188 |
XLIV | 195 |
XLV | 206 |
XLVI | 209 |
XLVII | 211 |
XLVIII | 218 |
XII | 41 |
XIV | 50 |
XV | 54 |
XVI | 60 |
XVII | 62 |
XVIII | 83 |
XX | 85 |
XXI | 87 |
XXII | 90 |
XXIII | 97 |
XXIV | 104 |
XXV | 109 |
XXVI | 127 |
XXVII | 128 |
XXVIII | 138 |
XXIX | 140 |
XXX | 141 |
XXXI | 146 |
XXXII | 147 |
XXXIII | 152 |
XXXIV | 153 |
XXXV | 159 |
XXXVI | 163 |
XXXVII | 170 |
XXXVIII | 175 |
XXXIX | 176 |
XL | 179 |
XLIX | 226 |
L | 234 |
LII | 242 |
LIV | 245 |
LV | 249 |
LVI | 254 |
LVII | 255 |
LVIII | 265 |
LIX | 273 |
LX | 275 |
LXI | 293 |
LXII | 305 |
LXIII | 309 |
LXIV | 312 |
LXV | 315 |
LXVI | 320 |
LXVII | 322 |
LXVIII | 331 |
LXIX | 348 |
LXX | 349 |
LXXI | 350 |
LXXII | 351 |
LXXIV | 355 |
LXXV | 437 |
LXXVI | 451 |
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Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet John J. Makransky Limited preview - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
AA chapter AA verse AA vv AA's Abhayākaragupta Abhidharma Abhisamayālamkāra Amano appears Arya Ārya Vimuktisena attainment bhāṣya bodhisattva body Buddha dharmas Buddha-nature Buddha's gnosis Buddhahood Buddhist Candrakirti chos cognitive commentary consisting of gnosis conventional truth Conze dharmadhātu dharmakaya dharmată eighth chapter emptiness enlightenment four kāyas Four Noble Truths fourth kāya gnoseology gnoses Go ram Haribhadra identified Indian interpretation of AA jñāna jñānātmaka karma Large PP Sūtra logical Madhyamaka Mahāyāna sūtras manifestations meditative nairmāṇikakāya nirvāņa Noble Truths nonabiding nirvāṇa nonconceptual gnosis nondual nondual realization nyid pa'i passage 8.5 path perfection of wisdom perspective phenomena practice prajñā Prajñāpāramitā sūtras prior qualities quotes Ratnākaraśānti reference rnam rūpakāyas sambhogikakāya samsara Sanskrit scholars sDe dge svabhāva svābhāvika svābhāvikakāya Tathāgata teaching term dharmakaya textual basis three kayas thusness Tibet Tibetan translation tion traditions Tsong kha pa's ultimate truth unconditioned undefiled dharmas Ye shes sde Yogācāra Yogācāra texts yogic