Mipham's Beacon of Certainty : Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection,9780861711574

Mipham's Beacon of Certainty : Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection

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ISBN13: 9780861711574
ISBN10: 0861711572
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): Wisdom Publications
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Summary

Dzogchen--the oft-misunderstood Tibetan meditation practice--is dissected inreat detail here, revealing the buried rational origins and interpretationf this spiritual practice. Original.

Author Biography

John Whitney Pettit received his Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from Columbia University. He lives in Woodstock, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Penor Rinpoche
Acknowledgments xi
Source Abbreviations xv
Annotations, Diacritics, and Transcription xvii
Introduction
1(18)
Mipham Rinpoche and the Beacon of Certainty
1(1)
Outline
2(1)
The Beacon of Certainty: Context and Significance
2(5)
Dialectical Philosophy and the Great Perfection
2(3)
The Beacon's Purpose
5(1)
The Beacon's Comparative Method
6(1)
Methods and Sources
7(7)
Tibetan Language Sources
8(1)
Editions of the Beacon
8(3)
English Language Sources
11(3)
The Contributions of this Work
14(5)
The Life and Works of Mipham Rinpoche
19(22)
Accounts of Mipham's Life
22(1)
The Essential Hagiography
23(18)
mKhan chen Kun bzang dpal ldan
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: An Overview
41(30)
Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Buddhism
41(1)
Hinayana and Mahayana
42(3)
Important Teachings of Mahayana Scriptures
45(6)
Prajnaparamita
45(2)
The Samdhinirmocana and the ``Essence Sutras''
47(2)
Sources for Buddhist Hermeneutics
49(2)
Traditions of Indian Madhyamaka
51(9)
Origins of Prasangika and Svatantrika Madhyamaka
52(3)
Yogacara and the Yogacara Madhyamaka Synthesis
55(2)
Madhyamaka and Pramana
57(3)
Vajrayana: Buddhist Tantra
60(11)
Indian Origins
60(2)
Philosophical Dimensions of Tantra
62(6)
Styles of Tantric Practice
68(3)
Tibetan Buddhist Traditions and the Great Perfection
71(30)
The Yarlung Empire and the Introduction of Buddhism
72(2)
Early Nyingma Teachers and Texts
74(12)
The Treasure Tradition
76(1)
The Great Perfection
77(1)
Origins
77(1)
The View of the Great Perfection
77(2)
The Three Classes of Great Perfection
79(1)
Great Perfection in Practice
80(1)
The Great Perfection in Comparative Philosophical Texts
81(1)
Ch'an and the Great Perfection in the bSam gtan mig sgron
82(2)
Other Early Doxographies
84(2)
The New Translation Period and the Nyingma Tradition
86(15)
Rong zom Pandita
88(3)
The Rise of Scholasticism
91(1)
Klong chen rab 'byams
92(5)
Nyingma Monasticism and the Ecumenical Movement (ris med)
97(1)
A Nyingma Philosophy?
98(3)
Philosophical Distinctions of Mipham's Thought
101(24)
The Gelug Philosophical Tradition
101(3)
Theory, Practice, and Ultimate Reality
104(3)
Valid Cognition and Philosophical Analysis
107(4)
The Philosophy of Extrinsic Emptiness
111(3)
Mipham's Interpretation of Extrinisic Emptiness and Tathagatagarbha
114(3)
Mipham's Position on the Tathagatagarbha
117(8)
The Beacon of Certainty
125(44)
Recapitulation of Earlier Discussions
125(1)
The Topics of the Beacon
126(7)
The Beacon and Tsongkhapa's Eight Great Difficult Points
128(2)
Some Observations on Topics 5,6, and 7
130(3)
View, Meditative Practice, and Ultimate Reality in the Beacon
133(36)
Anupaksas and Purvapaksas: An Overview
133(1)
Essential Issues and Arguments in Topics 1, 3, and 4
134(2)
Go ram pa's Analysis of View and Meditation in the TSB
136(1)
Go ram pa on the Ultimate View
137(2)
Go ram pa on Meditative Practice
139(2)
Topic I: Philosophical View and Rational Negation
141(1)
Tsongkhapa on the Negandum and Its Substratum
141(3)
Mipham's Theory of Negation
144(1)
Negation and the Definition of the Ultimate
144(2)
Mipham's Analysis of Negation in the MAZL
146(5)
Mipham's Theory of the Ultimate: Gnosis and Coalescence
151(6)
Topics 3 and 4: Tsongkhapa and Mipham on Modal Apprehension and Analytical Reasoning
157(1)
Tsongkhapa on the Role of Conceptuality in Meditation
157(3)
Yon tan rgya mtsho on Modal Apprehension and Analysis
160(9)
Ascertainment (nges pa) and Certainty (nges shes): Some Conclusions
169(18)
Mipham's Place in Tibetan Philosophy
182(2)
Philosophical Texts and Human Relatedness
184(3)
The Translation of the Beacon of Certainty
187(54)
Terminology and Syntax
187(1)
Technical Terms
188(4)
Proper Names
192(1)
On the Use and Disuse of Sanskrit Terms
192(1)
Outline of the Beacon and Khro shul 'jam rdor's Commentary
193(48)
Abbreviations and Bibliography
193(1)
Introduction
194(2)
Topic I
196(3)
Topic 2
199(4)
Topic 3
203(5)
Topic 4
208(6)
Topic 5
214(5)
Topic 6
219(8)
Topic 7
227(10)
Conclusion
237(4)
Stainless Light: A Commentary on the Beacon of Certainty
241(174)
Topic I
251(20)
Topic 2
271(20)
Topic 3
291(15)
Topic 4
306(23)
Topic 5
329(16)
Topic 6
345(26)
Topic 7
371(33)
Conclusion
404(11)
The Lion's Roar Proclaiming Extrinsic Emptiness
415(24)
Appendix: Explanatory Diagrams and Tables
Diagram I: Conceptuality and True Existence According to Go ram pa and Mipham
429(1)
Diagram 2: Conceptuality and True Existence According to Tsongkhapa
430(1)
Table I: Mipham's System of Four Pramanas
431(1)
Table 2: Traditions, Two-truth Paradigms, and Their Sources
432(1)
Table 3: Pramanas and Their Paradigms of Truth and Negation
433(1)
Table 4: The Role of Ascertainment and Conceptuality According to Mipham and Gelug Philosophers
434(1)
Notes to Tables
435(4)
Glossary of Technical Terms 439(22)
Notes 461(72)
Bibliography of Works Consulted 533(24)
Index 557

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