Madhyamaka & Other Tenets
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FUNDAMENTAL WISDOM OF THE MIDDLE WAY: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika trans. and commentary by Jay Garfield 336 pp. #FUWIMI - $ 19.95 Nagarjuna's greatest philosophical work, the Mulamadhyamakakarika, is one of the most influential works on middle way philosophy. Jay Garfield offers this very accessible translation and commentary. | |
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A GARLAND OF LIGHT: Kambala's Alokamala trans. by Christian Lindtner 172 pp. #GALIKA - $ 50.00 An overview of the Yogacara (mind-only) teachings in inspiring verse form. Written at a time when Yogacara and Madhyamaka are not inimical. Indeed, mind-only (cittamattra) is here equated with emptiness. One of the better introductions to Yogacara available. | |
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GATEWAY TO KNOWLEDGE: Volume 1 by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche approx 140 pp. #GAKN - $ 16.95 A condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries--a distillation of Abhidharma, Prajnaparamita and Madhyamika from both the Mahayana and "Hinayana" perspectives by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche containing explanations of the five aggregates, the elements, the sense-sources, interdependence, valid and non-valid cognition, the sense faculties, and time. | |
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GATEWAY TO KNOWLEDGE: Volume 2 by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche 184 pp., Tibetan text. #GAKN2 - $ 18.00 A condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries--a distillation of Abhidharma, Prajnaparamita and Madhyamika from both the Mahayana and "Hinayana" perspectives by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche. Volume 2 elucidates the Four Noble Truths. | |
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GATEWAY TO KNOWLEDGE: Volume 3 by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche 208 pp. #GAKN3 - $ 18.00 The Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of text books, it is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Volume III of this rich source book elucidates Mahayana and emptiness. | |
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THE HARMONY OF EMPTINESS AND DEPENDENT-ARISING by Ven. Lobsang Gyatso 156 pp. #HAEMDE - $ 15.00 Skilfully explains the different Buddhist schools' views on the relationship of emptiness and dependent-arising in this commentary to Tsongkhapa's Praise of Dependent Arising. | |
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THE HEART SUTRA EXPLAINED: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 230 pp. #HESUEX - $ 29.95 Offers new insights on this sutra and on the synthesis of Madhyamika, Yogacara, and tantric thought that characterized the final period of Buddhism in India--it includes complete translations of two nineteenth-century Tibetan commentaries: Stan dar lha ram pa's Commentary on the Heart Sutra, Jewel Light Illuminating the Meaning, and Gung thang dKon mchog Stan pa'i sgron me's An Explanation of the Heart Sutra Mantra, Illuminating the Hidden Meaning. More ... | |
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INTRODUCTION TO THE MIDDLE WAY: Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Commentary by Jamgon Mipham with commentary by Jamgon Mipham, translated by The Padmakara Translation Group 432 pp., paper. #INMIWP - $ 29.95 A treatise on the concept of emptiness, by one of the best-known philosophers in Buddhist history. The Madhyamakavatara is considered a masterpiece of Madhyamaka (Middle Way). Mipham's commentary, in a thorough outline format, offers a point-by-point explanation. More ... | |
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THE KEY TO THE TREASURY OF SHUNYATA: Dependant Arising and Emptiness comm. by Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin 350 pp., Tibetan text. #KETRSH - $ 15.00 The purpose of this text is to clarify the ultimate nature of phenomena. The masterful Khensur Lobsang Tharchin does this by commenting on two texts: A Praise to the Unsurpassed Teacher, The Buddha Bhagavan, for Teaching the Profound through Dependent Arising by Je Tsongkhapa and also the Heart Sutra. | |
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THE MADMAN'S MIDDLE WAY: Reflections on Reality of a Modernist Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel by Donald Lopez, Jr. Cloth. 264 pp. #MAMIWA - regular price $ 35.00 Our Price $28.00 Gendun Chopel, an important 20th intellectual, wrote Adornment for Nagarjuna's Thought, here translated and accompanied by an essay on Chopel's life. Lopez provides a commentary that sheds light on the doctrinal context and summarizes key arguments. More ... | |
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by Donald Lopez, Jr. Paper, 264 pp. (See description above.) #MAMIWP - $ 20.00 | |
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MEDITATION ON EMPTINESS by Jeffrey Hopkins 1022 pp. 21 line drawings, 51 charts, glossary, bibliography, index, Tibetan text. #MEEM - $ 29.95 The most comprehensive work in English on emptiness. In bringing this remarkable exposition of the Prasangika-Madhyamaka view of emptiness to life, Hopkins describes the meditational practices by which emptiness can be realized and shows how the teachings are utterly practical. He also covers dependent arising, the four noble truths, Buddhist logic, and tenets, and non-Buddhist schools of philosophy. | |
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THE MIND AND ITS FUNCTIONS by Geshe Rabten 189 pp., glossary, bibliography. #MIFU - $ 18.95 Understanding the nature of mind and the many mental factors is the basis of the philosophic systems of Tibet. Part One presents a primarily epistemological model of the mind based on the Pramana literature. Part Two focuses on the psychological model of the mind as presented in the Abhidharma literature. | |
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MIPAM ON BUDDHA-NATURE: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition by Douglas S. Duckworth Cloth, 288 pp. #MIBUNA - $ 80.00 Mipam (1846-1912) is one of the most prolific thinkers in the history of Tibet and is a key figure in the Nyingma tradition. This book provides an in-depth account of Mipam's view, drawing on a wide range of his works and offering several new translations. Duckworth shows how a dialectic of presence and absence permeates Mipam's writing on the Middle Way and Buddha-Nature. | |
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MIPHAM'S DIALECTICS AND THE DEBATES ON EMPTINESS: To be, not to be or neither by Karma Phuntsho Cloth. 304 pp. #MIDIDE - $ 115.00 This thematic examination of Nyingma philosopher Mipham's critique of emptiness--varying from the Gelugpa presentation--focuses on what is negated by the doctrine of emptiness, the nature of ultimate reality, and the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic emptiness. More ... | |
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NAGARJUNA'S REASON SIXTY (Yuktisastika) with CANDRAKIRTI'S COMMENTARY (Yuktisastikavrtti) trans. by Joseph Loizzo Cloth, 434 pp. #NARESI - $ 49.00 The Reason Sixty is the most concise philosophical work by the 2nd century Indian philosopher Nagarjuna. Along with the acclaimed 7th century commentary by Candrakirti, it is frequently cited as a key text of the Tibetan philosophical curriculum This annotated translation comes with detailed essays, critical Tibetan editions, trilinguial and technical glossaries, index, and more. More ... | |
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OCEAN OF REASONING: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by RJe Tsong khapa, translated by Geshe Ngawang Samten and Jay Garfield 608 pp. #OCRE - $ 35.00 "This book is essential reading for those who are seriously interested in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The combination of a prominent Tibetan scholar and a Western philosopher yields an erudite but readable translation of one of the most important Tibetan works on Madhyamaka philosophy. The authors do a superb job of introducing the text and in rendering it into English in a way that makes it accessible to readers with a background in Buddhist thought or Western philosophy."--John Powers, author of Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism More ... | |
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THE OPEN DOOR TO EMPTINESS by Khenchen Thrangu, Rinpoche, trans. by Shakya Dorje, ed. by Michael Lewis & Clark Johnson 126 pp. #OPDOEM - $ 12.95 Rinpoche talks on the nature of emptiness of self and external phenomena by means of logical arguments using ordinary life experiences and bases his teaching on Mipham Rinpoche's great treatise, The Gateway to Knowledge. | |
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POINTING THE WAY TO REASONING commentary by Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche 548 pp. Hard cover edition. #POWARE - $ 15.00 The cornerstone of Gelug monastic education, on which all other study is built, is covered in three essential texts--Compendium of Debates; Types of Mind; and Analysis of Reasons--which are studied for the first 3 years in monasteries. This useful commentary elucidates these core issues: analysis of logic, reasons, types of minds and more. | |