The Center of the Sunlit Sky Madhyamaka in

Madhyamaka is a potent and universally accessible means of calming our suffering and awakening to our innate wisdom. The Center of the Sunlit Sky artfully rescues this brilliant teaching from its unwarranted reputation for intellectual opacity and reinstates it as a supremely practical toolkit for everyday living.

Karl Brunnholzl, M.D. was trained as a physician and also studied Tibetology

Acknowledgments

11

(2)

Foreword

13

(4)

Preface

17

(8)

Introduction

25

(20)

PART ONE: THE GENERAL PRESENTATION OF MADHYAMAKA IN THE KAGYU TRADITION

45

(554)

1 The Transmission of Madhyamaka from India to Tibet and Its Relation to Vajrayana and Mahamudra

47

(22)

2 The Middle from Beginning to End

69

(264)

Madhyamaka Ground

72

(81)

What Is Reality?

72

(5)

No Ground for the Two Realities

77

(3)

The Detailed Explanation of the Two Realities

80

(30)

The Meaning of the Terms

80

(2)

Painting the Sky: A Description of Their Defining Characteristics

82

(6)

Are the Two Realities One or Different?

88

(6)

Seeming Divisions of the Seeming

94

(5)

Dividing Space: Divisions of the Ultimate

99

(2)

A Critical Analysis of Some Other Tibetan Views on the Two Realities in Centrism

101

(4)

The Definite Number of Two Realities and the Purpose of Understanding Them

105

(5)

The Emptiness of Emptiness

110

(1)

Freedom Is the Nature of Not Having a Nature

110

(4)

Elaborations on Simplicity

114

(12)

The Twenty Emptinesses

117

(5)

The Sixteen Emptinesses

122

(4)

The Two Types of Identitylessness

126

(16)

Lost Identity

126

(9)

Phenomenal Identitylessness

135

(2)

Personal Identitylessness

137

(4)

Are the Two Identirylessnesses One or Different?

141

(1)

The Purpose of Teaching Two Identirylessnesses

141

(1)

From Knowledge to Wisdom

142

(11)

Madhyamaka Path

153

(170)

How Can Madhyamaka Be a Personal Practice?

157

(15)

Reasoning and Debate in Centrism

172

(101)

Three Stages of Analysis by Nagarjuna and Aryadeva

172

(2)

Is Reasoning Reasonable?

174

(3)

Reasons and Negations

177

(16)

What Is the Object of Negation in Centrist Reasonings?

193

(6)

The Status of Valid Cognition in Centrism

199

(19)

Do Centrists Have a Thesis or Position?

218

(13)

Illusory Lions Killing Illusory Elephants: Empty Reasonings for Liberation

231

(1)

Some Essential Points of Centrist Reasoning

231

(1)

Disillusionment with Phenomenal Identity

235

(1)

The Five Great Madhyamaka Reasonings

235

(1)

Other Reasonings

262

(2)

Unmasking Personal Identity

264

(7)

The Result of Centrist Reasoned Analysis

271

(2)

Madhyamaka Meditation

273

(48)

Why Is Analytical Meditation Necessary?

273

(3)

Calm Abiding and Superior Insight

276

(3)

Analytical Meditation and Resting Meditation

279

(6)

Working with the Mind in Meditation and Daily Life

285

(5)

How to Practice a Session of Analytical Meditation

290

(5)

The Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness

295

(15)

Mental Nonengagement in Meditation

310

(11)

Madhyamaka Conduct

321

(2)

Madhyamaka Fruition

323

(10)

3 The Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists

333

(112)

Classifications of Centrism in India and Tibet

333

(8)

Refutation of Mistaken Assumptions about Autonomists and Consequentialists

341

(19)

The Actual Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists

360

(13)

How the Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists by Later Tibetans Is a Novelty

373

(19)

The Origin of the Controversy between Autonomists and Consequentialists

392

(29)

Do Hearers and Solitary Realizers Realize Emptiness?

421

(17)

Conclusion

438

(7)

4 Is There Such a Thing as Shentong-Madhyamaka?

445

(82)

The Yogacara System in General

457

(3)

The System of the Lineage of Vast Activity

460

(40)

The Treatment of Yogacara and the Rangtong-Shentong Controversy in Tibet

500

(15)

The Single Final Intention of the Two Philosophical Systems of the Great Vehicle

515

(12)

5 The Distinction between Expedient and Definitive Meaning

527

(26)

6 An Outline of Some Major Differences between Mikyo Dorje's and Tsongkhapa's Interpretations of Centrism

553

(46)

PART TWO: THE Bodhicarydvatdra AND PAWO TSUGLA TRENGWA

599

(192)

7 Some Remarks on the Bodhicarydvatdra and Pawo Rinpoche's Commentary

601

(16)

8 The Ninth Chapter of Pawo Rinpoche's Commentary on The Entrance to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life

617

(174)

Appendix I: A Short Biography of the Second Pawo Rinpoche Tsugla Trengwa

791

(3)

Appendix II: Non-Buddhist Indian Schools

794

(6)

Appendix III: Tibetan Text of the Ninth Chapter of the Bodhicaryavatara

800

(16)

Glossary: English-Sanskrit-Tibetan

816

(7)

Glossary: Tibetan-Sanskrit-English

823

(8)

Bibliography

831

(22)

Endnotes

853

(110)

Index

963

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