Reflections on Reality - The Three Natures Non Natures in Mind Only School: Dynamic Responses

"This is without question the finest and most complete discussion of the renowned Mind-Only school and its Tibetan context."—Anne C. Klein, author of Knowledge and Liberation, Path to the Middle

"An important new contribution to our understanding of the development of Buddhist philosophical thought in Tibet."—Matthew T. Kapstein, author of The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

List of contents

Preface
Technical Notes

Part One: Background
Part Two: Religous Significance of the Three Natures of Phenomena
Part Three: Examining the Sutra Unraveling the Thought
Part Four: Thoroughly Established Nature Endowed with Buddha Qualities
Part Five: Views on the Two Emptinesses
Part Six: Undermining Error

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3

Backnotes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. His more than twenty-five books include Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism (California, 1999) and Cultivating Compassion (2001) and, as translator-editor, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's How to Practice (2002) and The Meaning of Life (2000).

Summary

This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism. It conveys the intellectual vibrancy of the different cultural interpretations of Dzong-ka-ba's "The Essence of Eloquence", and expands the key philosophical issues it addresses.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Hopkins, Hopkins Jeffrey, Jeffrey Hopkins
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2002
• EAN: 9780520211209
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21120-9
• No. of pages: 608
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, Buddhism, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy