Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
by Tashi Tsering, Geshe; Rinpoche, Lama ZopaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-10-01
Publisher(s): Wisdom Publications
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Summary
"Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth is a clear and practical presentation of a core Buddhist teaching on the nature of reality. Geshe Tashi Tsering provides readers with an opportunity to enhance not only their knowledge of Buddhism, but also a powerful means to profoundly enhance their view of the world." "The Buddhist teaching of the "two truths" is the gateway to understanding the often-misunderstood philosophy of emptiness. This volume is an excellent source of support for anyone interested in cultivating a more holistic and transformative understanding of the world around them and ultimately of their own consciousness."--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
Geshe Tashi Tsering is renowned for his ability to render Buddhist philosophy accessible and relevant to modern lives
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Editor's Preface | p. xv |
| The Evolution of Buddhist Thought | p. 1 |
| Logic and Emotion | p. 1 |
| The Long View | p. 1 |
| Harnessing Our Emotions | p. 3 |
| Listening, Contemplating, and Meditating | p. 6 |
| The Evolution of Buddhist Thought | p. 8 |
| Buddhism in India | p. 9 |
| The Four Schools | p. 12 |
| Buddhism in Tibet | p. 14 |
| The Base and the Path within the Four Schools | p. 17 |
| The Tibetan System of Study | p. 17 |
| The Base of the Path | p. 18 |
| The Two Truths as the Base | p. 20 |
| The Path | p. 21 |
| The Results of the Path | p. 23 |
| The Core Concepts of Tibetan Buddhism | p. 23 |
| Buddhist Tenets | p. 23 |
| Impermanence | p. 26 |
| Selflessness | p. 27 |
| Arriving at Right View | p. 31 |
| The Vaibhashika School | p. 35 |
| The Great Exposition | p. 35 |
| Divisions of Phenomena | p. 36 |
| Compounded and Uncompounded Phenomena | p. 37 |
| The Vaibhashika View of the Two Truths | p. 39 |
| Conventional Truth and Imputed Existence | p. 42 |
| Ultimate Truth and Substantial Existence | p. 45 |
| Ultimate Truth, Selflessness, and Emptiness | p. 47 |
| Partless Particles and Partless Moments of Consciousness | p. 48 |
| The Sautrantika School | p. 53 |
| The Sutra School | p. 53 |
| Existent Objects | p. 55 |
| Things and Nonthings | p. 55 |
| Specifically Characterized and Generally Characterized Phenomena | p. 58 |
| Real and Unreal Existent Objects | p. 60 |
| The Relationship of Mind and Object | p. 64 |
| The Reality of Material Objects | p. 65 |
| Ultimate Truth and Conventional Truth | p. 69 |
| Ultimate Truth in Sautrantika | p. 69 |
| Conventional Truth in Sautrantika | p. 71 |
| The Chittamatra School | p. 75 |
| The Texts Used in Chittamatra | p. 75 |
| Chittamatra's Base, Path, and Result | p. 76 |
| The Three Natures | p. 79 |
| Dependent Nature | p. 80 |
| Imputed Nature | p. 80 |
| Perfect Nature | p. 82 |
| The Mind-Basis-of-All | p. 83 |
| The Features of Mind-Basis-of-All | p. 85 |
| The Properties of Mind-Basis-of-All | p. 88 |
| Afflictive Mental Consciousness | p. 90 |
| How an Object Exists According to Chittamatra | p. 92 |
| Ultimate Truth and Conventional Truth According to Chittamatra | p. 94 |
| The Madhyamaka School | p. 99 |
| The Major Texts and Teachers of the Madhyamaka School | p. 99 |
| The Two Subschools | p. 101 |
| The Importance of the Two Truths for Madhyamaka | p. 102 |
| Conventional Truth in Madhyamaka | p. 105 |
| The Meaning of Samvriti Satya | p. 105 |
| The Accuracy of Direct Valid Cognizers | p. 109 |
| How Inferences Realize an Object | p. 111 |
| The Existence of External Objects | p. 114 |
| Real and Unreal Conventional Truths | p. 115 |
| Ultimate Truth in Madhyamaka | p. 116 |
| Emptiness | p. 116 |
| The Meaning of Paramarta Satya | p. 117 |
| Ultimate Mind | p. 119 |
| Ultimate Existence | p. 121 |
| Ultimate Truth | p. 123 |
| Illusion and Reality | p. 125 |
| The Relationship Between the Two Truths | p. 125 |
| One Entity, Different Isolates | p. 128 |
| The Faults If the Two Truths Were Different Entities | p. 129 |
| How Things Exist | p. 131 |
| The Truth That Conceals | p. 131 |
| How Things Exist Conventionally | p. 133 |
| The Sequence of Realizing the Two Truths | p. 136 |
| How Realized Beings Perceive Relative Truths | p. 139 |
| Illusion and Reality | p. 141 |
| Wisdom or Dogma? | p. 145 |
| Glossary | p. 149 |
| Bibliography | p. 157 |
| Notes | p. 161 |
| Index | p. 167 |
| About the Authors | p. 177 |
| The Foundation of Buddhist Thought | p. 179 |
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