Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness: To Be, Not to be Or NeitherThis is an introduction to the Buddhist philosophy of Emptiness which explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. It examines the critique by the leading Nyingma school philosopher Mipham (1846-1912) formulated in his diverse writings. The book focuses on related issues such as what is negated by the doctrine of emptiness, the nature of ultimate reality, and the difference between 'extrinsic' and 'intrinsic' emptiness. Karma Phuntsho's book aptly undertakes a thematic and selective discussion of these debates and Mipham's qualms about the Gelukpa understanding of Emptiness in a mixture of narrative and analytic style. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
a religious issue and the nature of the debates | 10 |
Sources and methodological considerations | 19 |
the primary path | 28 |
the religious goal | 34 |
an outline of the history | 40 |
Debates after Tsongkhapa | 47 |
4 | 112 |
Conceptuality nonconceptuality and Emptiness | 185 |
On Hwashang and meditation on Emptiness | 193 |
Some concluding remarks | 208 |
Appendix I | 213 |
Appendix II | 215 |
Appendix III | 217 |
Appendix IV | 219 |
Notes | 226 |
5 | 132 |
Is Emptiness knowable and effable? | 162 |
Rebutting his refuters | 170 |
Apprehension grasping and the ultimate | 178 |
Bibliography | 283 |
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Common terms and phrases
absence of hypostatic apprehension argues ba'i brjod bsdus Buddha Buddhist Candrakīrti chen chos cognition commentary conceptual thought conventional truth conventionally dang debate delineation dependent origination dgag dGongs pa rab dngos don dam dzin Dzogchen elaborations Emptiness qua entity Gelukpa gnas gnosis gnyis grasping grel gSung sgros Gyaltshan gyur gzhan stong Hwashang hypostatic existence Ibid inherent nature Ketaka knowable lack of hypostatic Lam rim Longchenpa ma yin Madhyamika Mahāyāna meditation Mipham mtha mtshan Nāgārjuna negandum negation Ngarabpa Nges shes sgron Ngog non-conceptual non-existent notational ultimate nyid Nyingma Nyingmapas object pa'i don phenomena philosophical phyir Prasangika qua Emptiness rab gsal Rab lan reality refutation rgya rGyal rGyan grel rigs rnam rtog Sakya scholars Seyfort Ruegg snang soteriological spros sutras Svātantrika tathāgatagarbha tetralemma tha snyad theory things Tibet Tibetan Trulku tshe Tsongkhapa ultimate analysis ultimate truth understanding of Emptiness vase verse zhes zhig