Research Catalog

Title

Freedom from extremes : Gorampa's "Distinguishing the views" and the polemics of emptiness / José Ignacio Cabezón and Geshe Lobsang Dargyay.

Author

Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-seng-ge, 1429-1489

Publication

Boston : Wisdom Publications, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-seng-ge, 1429-1489.
• Cabezón, José Ignacio, 1956-
• Lobsang Dargyay.

Description

xiv, 415 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Fifteenth-century Buddhist scholar Gorampa challenged his contemporaries' thinking about the fundamental concept of "emptiness," pioneering an approach that avoided what he critiqued as the traps of eternalism and nihilism. Freedom from extremes is his powerful polemic on the subject. This critical edition of a book renowned for its conciseness, lucidness, and profundity provides students and scholars with direct access to Gorampa's own words. The authors offer illuminating context in an extensive introduction on his life and work, along with an overview of Tibetan polemical literature.

Series Statement

Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

Uniform Title

Lta baʼi śan ʼbyed theg mchog gnad kyi zla zer. English

Alternative Title

Lta baʼi śan ʼbyed theg mchog gnad kyi zla zer.

Subjects

• Early works
• Sa-skya-pa (Sect) > Doctrines > Early works to 1800
• Mādhyamika (Buddhism) > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-382) and index.

Language (note)

• English translation with parallel romanized Tibetan text.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Distinguishing the views of emptiness: moonlight to illuminate the main points -- Of the supreme path -- Thematic subdivisions of the text -- Three ways of understanding the Madhyamaka -- The refutation of Dol po pa -- The refutation of Tsong kha pa -- The middle way as freedom from extremes.

ISBN

• 0861715233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780861715237 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006036944

OCLC

• 213508689
• SCSB-12522558

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library