The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine According to the Shentong Interpretation of theRatnagotravibhaga, S. K. Hookham, SUNY Press, 1991, 0791403572, 9780791403570, 422 pages..

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Tathagatagarbha -- Buddha Nature -- is a central concept of Mahayana Buddhism crucial to all theliving practice traditions of Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. Its relationship to the concept of emptinesshas been a subject of controversy for seven hundred years. Dr. Hookam's work investigates thedivergent interpretations of these concepts and the way the Tibetan tradition is resolving them.

In particular she does this with reference to the only surviving Indian commentary on theTathagatagarbha doctrine, the Ratnagotravibhaga. This text addresses itself directly to the issue ofhow to relate the doctrine of emptiness (the illusory nature of the world) to that of the truly existing,changeless Absolute (the Buddha Nature).

This is the first work by a Western writer to present an analysis of the Shentong tradition based onpreviously untranslated sources. The Shentong view rests on meditative experience that isinaccessible to the conceptualizing mind. It is deeply rooted in the sutra tradition of Indian Buddhismand is central to an understanding of the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions and Tantric practiceamong Kagyupas and Hyingmapas.

This book is an informative and useful explanation of the Shentong (AKA Yogachara-Madhyamika)view of Reality in the context of a commentary on the Ratnagotravibhaga. Any serious student ofTantric Buddhism will find this very useful in reconciling sutric views and tenet systems with those ofMahamudra and Dzogchen.

After reading Sallie B. King's Buddha Nature, I decided to continue reading about Tathagatagarbhaliterature and commentary. I just completed reading S.K. Hookham's The Buddha Within, and myhead is still spinning. I should have remembered (from reading King's book) that Tathagathagarbhais some heavy material; it's far from the straightforward, simple approach to Buddha natureemployed in Zen. It's about as complicated as Buddhism gets. Especially this text, since it is, afterall, written from a Vajrayana point of view, which is famous for being scholarly, academic, and highlyanalytical.

In Buddha Within, Hookham, herself a Kagyu lama and scholar, presents the Shentong view onTathagathagarba doctrine, as found in the Ratnagotravibhaga Shastra. And as far as I can tell, theShentong interpretation is exactly the same as Hua-yen and Zen--namely that the Absolute is noother than nondual Mind, empty of all conceptual qualities. In that respect, Hookham caught andmaintained my interest because much of the Shentong material sounded familiar to Zen.

A bit of sectarian criticism of Rangtong and the Gelugpa school (of which the Dalai Lama is amember) manages to creep inside the The Buddha Within, for comparative purposes; but as is thecustom with Tibetan literature, Hookham tends to rank stages of Buddhism with...you guessed it,Shentong transcending Rangtong. This is more of a stylistic convention, but one that always bristlesmy hackles when I read Tibetan material.

"It takes a very good mind to have a synoptic view of the whole Buddhist movement with the keydoctrine well in focus. The author has demonstrated a fine blend of the ideological and practicalnature of things. We are treated to a fine analysis of the historical and ideological developmentsfrom India proper to Tibet, including some references to China, and on up to the 20th centuryinterpretation. This will become a pivotal work for future studies on the subject. It will bring Tibetanstudies to a new high in terms of its focus."-- Kenneth Inada, State University of New York atBuffalo.

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Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, is the most highly trainedAmerican lama in the Tibetan tradition. In this elegant, inspiring book, he integrates essentialBuddhist practices with a variety of other spiritual philosophies and wisdom traditions, to show youhow to create a personalized spiritual practice based on your own individual beliefs, aspirations, andneeds. Through reflections on his own life quest, thoughtful essays, and entertaining stories, SuryaDas examines the common themes at the heart of any spiritual path, including faith, doubt, love,compassion, creativity, self-inquiry, and transformation. He then explores prayer, yoga, chanting,guided meditations, breathing exercises, and myriad other rituals, providing practical examples ofeach that we can use day-to-day to nurture our inner spirit.

A study of the concept of Buddha nature as discussed in the Buddha Nature Treatise attributed toVasubandhu and translated into Chinese by Paramartha in the sixth century. Sallie B.King placesthe Buddha nature concept in the context of Buddhist intellectual history, explains the language inthe text.

In addition, Sallie B. King refutes the accusations that the idea of Buddha nature introduces acrypto-Atman into Buddhist thought, and that it represents a form of monism akin to Brahmanism ofthe Upanishads. In doing this, King defends Buddha nature in terms of purely Buddhist philosophicalprinciples. Finally, the author engages the Buddha nature concept in dialogue with Westernphilosophy by asking what it teaches us about what a human being, or person, is. (From thebackcover of the book.)

1930. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766176851. Volume 1 of 2. This workclaims the consideration of the historian of the culture of Asia, of the Sanskrit philologist and of thegeneral philosopher. It is the last of a series of three works destined to elucidate what is perhaps themost powerful movement of ideas in the history of Asia, a movement which, originating in the 6thcentury BC in the valley of Hindustan, gradually extended its sway over almost the whole of thecontinent of Asia, as well as over the islands of Japan and of the Indian archipelago. These worksare thus concerned about the history of the ruling ideas of Asia, Central and Eastern.

This Buddhist logic of epistemological-logic has a built-in self-destructive logic in it. When youdiscover that the ordinary redkneck shares the same fate with the philosopher as far as his innatenatural-logic goes, it simply takes you to the last frontier of buddhist logic where you discover thefact that all human beings of all races are naturally ignorant! Unconsciously, Dharmakirti has literallyoutwitted the very purpose of epistemological sciences by illustrating that there is no logic beyondthe logic of whatever experience you are going through! this is the kind of book who knows itsdisciple! It is not meant for every thinker!

The emergence of the Madhyamaka philosophy was a radical turning point in the evolution ofBuddhist thought in terms of which untenability of realism of early Buddhism is established. Whiledelineating the various aspects of Madhyamaka thought in relation to Abhidharmic realism and

Brahmanical idealism, Prof. Murti at the same time has analysed the close resemblance that occursbetween the philosophy of Kant and Hegel, on the one hand, and Nagarjuna, on the other. Thus thebook is a veritable treasure of information covering the evolution of human thought in the East andWest.

This book is based primarily on the source material available in the Pali Canon, studied historicallyand philosophically in the light of the contemporary, earlier and later literary evidence related to thesubject. The antiquity and authenticity of the material is vouchsafed by the literary, linguistic,ideological, sociological, and historical evidence existing into Pali Canon itself. The book traces theorigin of the theory of knowledge and its development in early Buddhism - the Hinayana Buddhismof Pali Canon.

The book gives a descriptive analysis of specific Madhyamika texts. It compares the ideology ofKumarajiva ( a great translator of the four Madhyamika treatises in the fourth century A.D.) with theideologies of the three Chinese contemporaries - Hui-yuan, Jeng-jui and Seng-chao. It envisageesan inter-cultural transmission of religious and philosophical ideas from India to China.http://eduln.org/1294.pdfhttp://eduln.org/761.pdfhttp://eduln.org/2579.pdfhttp://eduln.org/118.pdfhttp://eduln.org/2162.pdfhttp://eduln.org/2297.pdfhttp://eduln.org/1652.pdfhttp://eduln.org/109.pdfhttp://eduln.org/826.pdfhttp://eduln.org/1603.pdfhttp://eduln.org/1463.pdf