Gone Beyond (Volume 2) The Prajnaparamita

The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the Prajnaparamita Sutras—the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through buddhahood.

Gone Beyond contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries in the Kagyu School. This study (in two volumes) includes translations of Maitreya's famous text and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa Goncho Yenla (the first translation ever of a complete commentary on the Abhisamayalamkara into English), which are supplemented by extensive excerpts from the commentaries by the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Karmapas and others. Thus it closes a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the Prajnaparamita Sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism.

The first volume presents an English translation of the first three chapters of the Abhisamayalamkara and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa. The second volume presents an English translation of the final five chapters and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa.

Karl Brunnhölzl, MD, was trained as a physician and also studied Tibetology. He received his systematic training in Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Marpa Institute for Translators, founded by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Since 1989 he has been a translator and interpreter from Tibetan and English. He is presently involved with the Nitartha Institute as a teacher and translator.

An Aspiration by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa	p. 11
Foreword by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Overview of Chapters Four to Eight	p. 18
The complete training in all aspects	p. 18
The culminating training	p. 20
The serial training	p. 22
The instantaneous training	p. 23
The dharmakäya	p. 23
Translation: A Concise Elucidation of the Abhisamayälamkära (Topics Four To Eight)	p. 25
The complete training in all aspects (familiarizing with the aspects of the three knowledges in a combined manner)	p. 27
The aspects to familiarize with	p. 28
The nature of the training	p. 42
Knowing the qualities	p. 44
Knowing the flaws	p. 45
The defining characteristics to be known	p. 47
Knowing the factors conducive to liberation	p. 57
The levels of its arising	p. 59
Explaining the supports that are the irreversible persons	p. 61
The cause of the dharmakäyaùthe training in the equality of existence and peace	p. 72
The cause of the sambhogakäyaùthe training in pure realms	p. 73
The manner in which it becomes skill in means through being embraced by compassion	p. 75
The culminating training (the consummation of the [complete training in all aspects])	p. 77
The culminating training of the path of preparation	p. 77
Heat	p. 78
Peak	p. 78
Poised readiness	p. 79
The supreme dharma	p. 79
The culminating training of the path of seeing	p. 80
The culminating training of the path of familiarization	p. 92
The culminating training of the uninterrupted path	p. 98
Removing qualms about the focal objects and aspects of this path	p. 99
The serial training (familiarizing with the [aspects of the three knowledges] in a sequential manner)	p. 103
The six päramitäs (the conduct, in which merit is primary)	p. 103
The six recollections (the path of the union [of view and conduct])	p. 104
The training in equality (the viewùprimarily familiarizing with wisdom)	p. 104
The instantaneous training (familiarizing with the [aspects of the three knowledges] in a simultaneous manner)	p. 105
The instantaneous training in terms of nonmaturation (being in the process of becoming free from the stains of the impregnations of negative tendencies)	p. 105
The instantaneous training in terms of maturation (being about to become buddha wisdom after being free from these [stains])	p. 106
The instantaneous training in terms of the lack of characteristics	p. 107
The instantaneous training in terms of nonduality	p. 107
Explaining the dharmakäya (the fruition)	p. 109
Explaining the sväbhävikakäya	p. 111
Explaining the sämbhogikakäya	p. 117
Explaining the nairmänikakäya	p. 125
Explaining enlightened activity	p. 126
Appendix I: Selected General Topics From JNS	p. 131
The training in the complete realization of all aspects	p. 131
The focal objects and aspects of this training	p. 131
Afflictive obscurations, cognitive obscurations, and obscurations of meditative absorption	p. 134
The 110 aspects of the knowledge of all aspects	p. 144
The signs of irreversibility	p. 163
The twenty-two faculties	p. 167
Ultimate reality and buddhahood as permanent entities that perform functions	p. 172
Emptiness, the nature of phenomena, and the sugata heart as existing functional entities	p. 172
Buddhahood and enlightened activity	p. 174
Training in the equality of samsära and nirväna	p. 182
The meaning of "vanquishing märas"	p. 186
The culminating training	p. 190
The four conceptions to be relinquished on the path of seeing and their remedies	p. 190
Enlightenment	p. 200
The five great reasonings	p. 202
The four stages of yoga	p. 207
Dependent origination	p. 226
The nature of the path of familiarization (lion's sport and crossing in one leap)	p. 246
The six causes and the four conditions	p. 266
The serial training	p. 270
The instantaneous training	p. 272
The dharmakäya	p. 276
The general presentation of the käyas	p. 276
The nature of just the dharmakäya in general	p. 277
The natures of the different käyas	p. 279
The distinctions in terms of the käyas being fully qualified or nominal and the manner in which knowable objects are seen	p. 285
Enlightened activity	p. 293
Charts	p. 295
The 173 aspects of the complete training in all aspects	p. 296
The different models of the sequence of the samädhis of the preparatory lion's sport and the actual crossing in one leap on the path of familiarization	p. 298
The six causes, four conditions, and five results	p. 303
The change of state of the eight consciousnesses into the four (five) wisdoms and the three (four) käyas	p. 306
Overview of the eight topics and the seventy points of the AA	p. 308
The Third KarmapaÆs Synopsis of the Eight Chapters of Prajñäpäramitä	p. 313
The Third KarmapaÆs Stanzas That Express Realization	p. 349
The Definitions of the Eight Topics and the Seventy Points of the AA According to JG, JNS, CE, STT, SLG/PK, and LSSP/PSD	p. 353
Tok's Presentation of the Paths, Bhümis, and Fruitions in the Causal Yäna of Characteristics	p. 377
Short Biographies of the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Karmapas and the Fifth Shamarpa	p. 465
The Abhisamayälamkära	p. 475
Glossary: EnglishùSanskritùTibetan	p. 507
Glossary: Tibetan-Sanskrit-English	p. 515
Bibliography	p. 523
Notes	p. 549
Index	p. 677
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Gone Beyond (Volume 2) The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials