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Emptiness Yoga: The Tibetan Middle Way » (New Edition)

Authors: Jeffrey Hopkins, Joe B. Wilson
ISBN-13: 9781559390439, ISBN-10: 1559390433
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1995
Edition: New Edition

Hopkins deserves congratulations on making this difficult material on the nature of emptiness as transparent as possible.--Religious Studies Review

Preface	9
Technical Note	12
1 Jang-gya's Biography	15
2 Consequentialists	36
3 Self	55
4 False Appearance	68
5 Own Thing	82
6 Validity	95
7 Withdrawal Is Not Sufficient	108
8 Reasoned Refutation	123
9 The Main Reasonings	148
10 Can Something Give Birth to Itself	156
11 Does a Plant Grow?	172
12 Inducing Realization	187
13 Other Reasonings	204
14 The Sevenfold Reasoning: Background	209
15 The Example: A Chariot	224
16 Bringing the Reasoning to Life	249
17 I As a Basis of Emptiness	263
18 Compatibility of Emptiness and Nominal Existence	282
19 Extending the Realization	293
20 Dependent-Arising	303
21The Centrality of Dependent-Arising	330
TRANSLATION: Jang-gya's Text Without Commentary	355
1 Definition of a Consequentialist	360
2 Self	364
3 Purpose of Reasoning	373
4 Refuting a Self of Phenomena	383
5 Refuting a Self of Persons	391
6 Dependent-Arising	409
Appendix: Page Correlations, Tibetan to English	429
Bibliography	431
Notes	511
Index	486
TIBETAN TEXT: The Middle Way Consequence School from
Jang-gya's Presentation of Tenets	512