Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle by Zangpo, Rongzom Chokyi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Publisher’s Note Acknowledgments Translator’s Introduction

The Audacity of Rongzom’s Work The Context for Rongzom’s Work The Story of Rongzom’s Life Rongzompa’s Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

Summary of Chapter 1 Summary of Chapter 2 Summary of Chapter 3 Summary of Chapter 4 Summary of Chapter 5 Summary of Chapter 6

On the English Translation

The Commentarial Treatise Entitled Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle by Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo 1. The Reality of Affliction

The Śrāvaka System The Pratyekabuddha System The Yogācāra System The Madhyamaka System The Madhyamaka and Guhyamantra Systems Conclusion

2. Objections and Replies

4. The Great Perfection Approach to the Path Is Not Undermined by Reason

Bodhicitta Conceptual Frameworks, Appearance, and Nature General Systems for Such Things as the Establishment and Negation of Identity and Difference On the Two Methods of [Establishing] Proofs Grammatical Treatises Logical Treatises Conclusion

5. Writings on Great Perfection

The Nature of Bodhicitta The Greatness of Bodhicitta Deviations and Obscurations Methods for Settling Bodhicitta From the Writings of Great Perfection

Eight Additional Rubrics All Phenomena Are Seen to Be Perfected within the Single Sphere of Bodhicitta All Confused Appearance Is Seen as the Play of Samantabhadra All Sentient Beings Are Seen as the Profound Field of Awakening All Domains of Experience Are Seen as Naturally Occurring Self-Appearing Gnosis All Phenomena Seen as Perfected within the Nature of the Five Types of Greatness The Six Great Spheres The Elimination of Deviations and Obscurations Twenty-Three Points of Deviation The Seven Obscurations The Three Beings The Three Great Assurances The Three Fundamental Esoteric Precepts Resolution through Bodhicitta What Is Resolved in Great Perfection The Disclosure of Methods for Consolidating Bodhicitta Disclosing Those Points through Scriptural Sources

On Critical Impediments to Concentration Criteria for the Attainment of Mastery over the Ordinary Mind On the Signs of Warmth On the Qualities of Bodhicitta

Other Paths as Doors to Great Perfection Six Faults Connected with Concentration Conceptuality Nine Obscurations Associated with the Path The Eightfold Concentration That Eliminates the Five Faults Six-Limbed Yoga Five Signs of Mental Stability After Attaining Such Signs of Mental Stability

Closing Verses Appendix: Tibetan Names in Phonetic and Transliterated Forms Abbreviations Notes Works Cited Index E-mail Sign-Up