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  • Gone Beyond Volume Two The Prajnaparamita Sutras the Ornament of Clear Realization and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition

Gone Beyond Volume Two The Prajnaparamita Sutras the Ornament of Clear Realization and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition

by  KARL BRUNNHOLZL,
ISBN: 9781559393577
Book Name:Gone Beyond Volume Two The Prajnaparamita Sutras the Ornament of Clear Realization and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition
Author:KARL BRUNNHOLZL,
Publisher:SNOW LION PUBLICATIONS
Edition:FIRST
Language:English
Binding:Hard Back
Publish Year:2011
Total Pages:685
Availablity: Only 1 Left in Stock
NPR 6078.00

BOOK SUMMARY

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. Gone Beyond contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries in the Kagyu School. This study (in two volumes) includes translations of Maitreya's famous text and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa Goncho Yenla (the first translation ever of a complete commentary on the Abhisamayalamkara into English), which are supplemented by extensive excerpts from the commentaries by the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Karmapas and others. Thus it closes a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the Prajnaparamita Sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. The first volume presents an English translation of the first three chapters of the Abhisamayalamkara and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa. The second volume presents an English translation of the final five chapters and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa.

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