The two truths debate: Tsongkhapa and Gorampa on the middle way

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thakchoe, Sonam (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Tibetan
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Published: Boston, Mass. [u.a.] Wisdom Publ. c 2007
In:Year: 2007
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Blo-bzang-grags-pa 1357-1419 / Bsod-nams-seng-ge 1429-1489 / Mādhyamika
Further subjects:B Truth Religious aspects Buddhism
B Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa (1357-1419)
B Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-seng-ge (1429-1489)
B Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa 1357-1419
B Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-seṅ-ge 1429-1489
B Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
B Buddhism (China) (Tibet Autonomous Region) Doctrines
B Buddhism Doctrines China Tibet
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references. - Teilw. tibetisch in lat. Umschr. - The relationship between the two truths: -- What is divided into the two truths? -- The objects of knowledge as the basis of the division -- Mere mind as the basis of the division -- How are the two truths related? -- The two truths are ontologically identical but conceptually distinct -- The two truths are distinct and incompatible -- Truths or one truth? -- How is conventional truth "truth" at all? -- Why is conventional truth false and deceptive? -- Applying the worldly convention -- The one and only truth -- Meanings and definitions of the two truths: -- The meanings of saṃvr̥ti -- Saṃvr̥ti as ignorant consciousness -- Saṃvr̥ti as mutually interdependent -- Saṃvr̥ti as worldly conventions -- Concealers: the soteriological objects of negation -- The meanings of paramārthasatya -- Definitions of the two truths -- Candrakīrti's defiition of the two truths -- Nāgārjuna's definition of the two truths -- Language, concepts, and ultimate truth: -- The limits of language and the conceptual mind: the cataract analogy and its applications -- Ineffability and inconceivability of ultimate truth -- The validity of the conceptual right view -- Final implications -- Realizing ultimate truth: -- Seeing ultimate truth by way of not seeing it -- Transcendence -- Proliferation of conceptual elaboration -- Transcending conceptual elaboration -- Nondual epistemology -- Seeing phenomena as nothing -- Seeing phenomena as empty -- Enlightenment: -- The universality of ultimate truth -- How an Ārya knows the two truths -- A Buddha's exceptional mode of knowing the two truths -- Knowing the two truths from the two conflicting perspectives -- Knowing the two truths simultaneously -- Conclusion: -- Soteriology and psychology -- Ontology -- Epistemology -- Ethical implications
ISBN:0861715012