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ACIP-Capturing an Entire Tradition

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Capturing an Entire Tradition

ACIP Release IV represents a big step forward in our goal ofcapturing one entire tradition - an authoritative lineage of great ideaspassed from teacher to student over the centuries - beginning with theKangyur Collection around 500 BC and stretching all the way up toour own time.We have concentrated on the entire tradition of ideas that took theirbirth in ancient India and culminated in the best-known figures inTibetan history: the Dalai Lamas and their teachers.The following very general chart then gives you a good picture of theCD-ROM in terms of one unbroken, exquisite continuation of thoughtfrom antiquity up to the present day.

500 BCOriginal Sanskrit sutras

on subjects like ethics, human perception, the perfection of wisdom,and the subjective nature of reality;

these are source texts for the great philosophical traditions of Tibet,especially that of the Dalai Lamas

author represented in the database:Gautama Buddha

200 ADfirst wave of sanskrit Treatises

on ideas like the perfection of generosity, an ethical life, overcominganger,developing contemplation and meditation; important

early Indian sources forthe traditions of Tibet

representative authors in the database:Masters Nagarjuna, Aryadeva

350 ADsecond wave of sanskrit Treatises


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expanding on ideas such as human psychology, the beginnings of theworld,

the measurement of time and space, and the question of life afterdeath;

important sources for textbooks of the Tibetan monasteriesin the tradition of the Dalai Lamas

representative authors in the database:Masters Asanga, Vasubandhu

500 ADthird wave of sanskrit Treatises

refinement of the principles of ethical living

and the birth of the great logic traditions;further important sources for textbooks of the Tibetan monasteriesin the tradition of the Dalai Lamas

representative authors in the database:Masters Gunaprabha, Dignaga

700 ADFourth wave of sanskrit Treatises

further clarifications of the role of the mind in perceptionand reality itself; great spread of the bodhisattva ideal

of putting the concerns of others above our own;final early sources for the textbooks of the monasteries

in the tradition of the Dalai Lamas

representative authors in the database:MasterS Chandrakirti, Dharmakirti, and Shantideva

1000 ADfinal wave of sanskrit Treatises

birth of the native Tibetan philosophical traditions,flowering of the great Tibetan lineages of intense spiritual practice,

in brief manuals of instruction;"grandfathers" of the tradition of the Dalai Lamas

representative authors in the database:Master Atisha, Geshe Drolungpa,

and Kadampas such as Chekawa and Dorje Sengge


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1250 ADearly tibetan classics of advanced philosophy

on subjects such as vowed morality, epistemology, psychology andcosmology;

philosophical refinement of those to become the teachersof the teachers of the first Dalai Lamas

representative authors in the database:Kunkyen Tsonawa, Chim Jampeyang

1400 ADGreat renaissance of advanced intellectual inquiry

and monastic commentary on the entire range of Sanskritclassics;

the era of the teachers of the first Dalai Lamas,and of these Lamas themselves

representative authors in the database:

nearly the entire collected works (over 300 separate titles in about 15,000

pages)

ofJe Tsongkapa, teacher of His Holiness the First Dalai Lama

a major portion (3,700 pages) of the collected works ofGyaltsab Je,

first holder of the throne of Je Tsongkapa

a major portion (3,300 pages) of the collected works ofKedrup Je,

another principal disciple of Je Tsongkapa

over 800 pages of important material by the First Dalai Lama

1550 ADFirst flowering of the great monastic textbooks

in the tradition of the Dalai Lamas of Tibet, coveringsubjects such as

the perfection of wisdom, the philosophy of the Middle Way,perceptual theory, the art of logical reasoning,

vowed morality, psychology, and the categories of existing things


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representative authors in the database:nearly all the works (28 titles in over 2,500 pages) of Kedrup Tenpa

Dargye,principal textbook writer for the Mey college of Sera Monastery,

founded by a student of the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, and oneof the largest monastic institutions in history

most of the works (30 titles in over 3,500 pages) of Sera JetsunChukyi Gyeltsen, principal textbook writer for the Jey college of Sera

Monastery

the Rato logic compendium of Chok-hla U-ser, the grandfather of theBuddhist logic lineages in the tradition of the Dalai Lamas

1650 ADWave of secondary Monastic Textbooks

refined manuals for advanced spiritual practice

representative authors in the database:essentially the entire collected works (265 titles in 5,200 pages) of the

First Panchen Lama, Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen (the PanchenLamas became the resident heads of the monastery founded by the

First Dalai Lama)

important works from Choney Lama Drakpa Shedrup, another majorauthor of text-books for Sera Mey Monastery

the entire collected works (over 100 titles in 2,200 pages) of the Lamato the Emperor of China, the First Changkya Rinpoche, NgawangLobsang Chunden (said to be a former life of Pabongka Rinpoche,

the principal teacher of one of the two principal teachers of thepresent Dalai Lama, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso)

1775 ADBeginning of the modern era

of philosophical commentaries

derivative works from the monastic textbooks,and practical manuals for a wide variety of spiritual practices

representative authors in the database:

the entire opus (600 pages) covering the schools of Asian philosophyby the Second Changkya Rinpoche, Rolpay Dorje


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the entire collected works (over 600 items in 4,800 pages) of NgulchuDharma Bhadra, a major figure in the transmission of important

teachings down to the principal teachers of the present Dalai Lama

selections from Panglung Lobsang Tukje, another author oftextbooks for Sera Mey Monastery

1900 ADfinal wave of classics before loss of tibet

highly refined derivative works on logic and philosophy,modern evolution of manuals for the steps of a lifetime of spiritual

practice (lam-rim),

great biographies and other documentation of the Tibetan tradition

representative authors in the database:Gyalwang Trinley Namgyal, famed biographer of the teacher of the

First Dalai Lama

a major portion (40 titles in 600 pages) of the collected works ofCheshu Rinpoche Lobsang Jangchub Tenpay Drunme,

the head of Kumbum, a major monastery located at the birthplace ofthe teacher of the First Dalai Lama

Yongdzin Purbuchok Jampa Tsultrim Gyatso, personal tutor to HisHoliness the XIIIth Dalai Lama

a major portion (65 titles in 2,100 pages) of the collected works ofPabongka Rinpoche Dechen Nyingpo, principal teacher of one of

two principal teachers of His Holiness, the present Dalai Lama

1970 AD

Heroic intellectual efforts by survivors ofthe Tibetan Diaspora

representative authors in the database:a major portion (55 titles in 1,600 pages) of the collected works ofKyabje Trijang Rinpoche, a principal teacher of the present Dalai

Lama

pieces by Sermey Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin,

one of the principal students of Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, and chiefeditor of the Asian Classics Input Project

modern philosophical classics of Geshe Yeshe Wangchuk


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of Sera Mey, and KHensur Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Wangchukof Sera Jey

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