The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet

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ISBN: 9780791471654 | 0791471659
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Copyright: 9/6/2007

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The Dharma's Gatekeepers offers an incisive analysis of one of the most important works in Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history: Sakya Pandita's Gateway to Learning (Mkhas pa 'jug pa'i sgo). Writing in a time when a distinctively Tibetan tradition of Buddhism was first emerging, Sakya Pandita wanted to present Tibetan intellectuals with what he took to be an authentically Indian (and therefore, authentically Buddhist) understanding of the nature and tasks of intellectual life-with a view of how scholarship was understood and practiced in the great monastic colleges of India.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Lion's Roar in the Assembly: Sa-Pan's Scholarly Ideal	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Gateway in the History of Tibetan Learning	p. 4
Sakyasribhadra and the Indianization of Tibet	p. 9
The Five Sciences and the Goal of Scholarly Perfection	p. 14
Beware of the Dharma in Translation: A Warning to Interpreters	p. 25
Introduction: Translation in Tibet and in the Gateway	p. 25
Obscure Vocabulary	p. 28
The Techniques of Translators	p. 30
Translation Mistakes	p. 31
Unintelligible Context	p. 32
Untranslatability Denied	p. 35
The Dharma Is Only Words: A Philosophical Authorization of the Linguist	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
Skill in Means in the Gateway	p. 42
The "Term Generality" at the Foundation of Grammar	p. 43
The "Term Generality" in Sakyapa Epistemology	p. 45
Sa-pan and Saussure on the Conceptuality and Conventionality of Language	p. 50
Sa-pan and Sonam Tsemo on the Dharma as Language	p. 53
Linguistics as the Study of Convention: The "Speech Intention"	p. 57
The Expert Knows the Context: Sa-Pan's Appeals to Buddhist Hermeneutics	p. 61
Introduction: Sa-pan's Contribution to Buddhist Hermeneutics	p. 61
Tantric Hermeneutics in the Background of the Gateway	p. 64
How Words Get Their Meaning	p. 69
Sa-pan's Previous Position: Linguistic Analysis in the Treasury	p. 73
Sa-pan's Predecessors on "Well Known in the World" and "Well Known in Treatises"	p. 76
Well-known Terminology and Linguistic Convention	p. 81
Sa-pan's General Theory of the "Well Known" and Tantric Hermeneutics	p. 84
Which Scholars Form the Community of Interpreters?	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 91
The Message in the Medium: Intellectual Norms and Protocols	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
The Three Kinds of Meaning in a Good Verse of Reverence	p. 95
Introductory Verses and the Social Function of Rhetoric	p. 98
Synopsis as a Display of Mastery	p. 102
Ensuring Excellence by Declaring a Legitimate Purpose	p. 107
How to Make Meaning-Evident	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 113
Appealing to the Translocal: Sanskrit Poetics for a Tibetan Buddhist Elite	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
Sa-pan's Buddhicization of the Rasas	p. 119
Applying the Rasas	p. 126
Poetics in Defense of the Dharma	p. 130
Introducing Poetics to Tibetans	p. 135
Conclusion: Who Benefits from Aesthetic Cultivation?	p. 138
Conclusion: Thoughts on a Future Comparative Intellectual History	p. 141
Appendixes
Outline	p. 151
The Gateway to Learning	p. 153
Notes	p. 185
Tibetan Orthographic Equivalents	p. 235
Abbreviations	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 255
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