The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra) write by Vasubandhu. This book was released on 2014-09-29. The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra) was transmitted from the bodhisattva Maitreyanātha to Āryā Āsaṅga, the fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar-adept. The most foundational of the set of the famous Five Teachings of Maitreya, theDiscourse Literature is considered the wellspring of what the Tibetans call the “magnificent deeds trend of the path,” the compassion side, which balances the “profound view trend of the path,” the wisdom side. The Discourse Literature is also considered to be metaphysically aligned with and foundational for the Idealist (Vijñānavādin) school of Mahāyāna thought. Translated from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese by Lobsang Jamspal, Robert Thurman, and the AIBS team, the present work contains a fully annotated, critical English rendition of theDiscourse Literature along with its commentary (bhāṣya) by Āsaṅga’s brother, Vasubandhu. It also includes an introduction covering essential historical and philosophical topics, a bibliography, and a detailed index. This long-awaited work is the founding cornerstone of the AIBS Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series.
Maitreyanātha's Ornament of the Scriptures of the Universal Vehicle
Maitreyanātha's Ornament of the Scriptures of the Universal Vehicle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maitreyanātha's Ornament of the Scriptures of the Universal Vehicle write by Maitreyanātha. This book was released on 1979. Maitreyanātha's Ornament of the Scriptures of the Universal Vehicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Buddhahood Embodied
Buddhahood Embodied - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhahood Embodied write by John J. Makransky. This book was released on 1997-07-31. Buddhahood Embodied available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To 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 world simultaneously. Revealing this tension as the basis of the Abhisamayalamkara controversy, Makransky shows its connection to many other Indo-Tibetan controversies revolving around the same tension: disagreements over buddhahood's knowledge, embodiment, and accessibility to beings (in Buddha nature and through the path). Tracing the source of tension to early Mahayana practice intuitions about enlightenment, the author argues that different perspectives in these controversies express different ways of prioritizing those practice intuitions.
A Study of the Buddhabhūmyupadeśa
A Study of the Buddhabhūmyupadeśa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Study of the Buddhabhūmyupadeśa write by John P. Keenan. This book was released on 1980. A Study of the Buddhabhūmyupadeśa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Central Philosophy of Tibet
The Central Philosophy of Tibet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Central Philosophy of Tibet write by Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa. This book was released on 1991-03-21. The Central Philosophy of Tibet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reprint. Originally published: Tsong Khapa's speech of gold in The essence of true eloquence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c1994.
