Meditation on Emptiness by Hopkins, Jeffrey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Technical Note List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Part One: Meditation

1. Purpose and Motivation 2. Self: The Opposite of Selflessness 3 Meditation: Identifying Self 4. Meditative Investigation 5. Dependent-Arising 6. Diamond Slivers 7. Realization 8. Calm Abiding 9. Special Insight 10. Tantra 11. Buddhahood

Part Two: Reasoning Into Reality

Introduction 1. The Diamond Slivers 2. The Four Extremes 3. The Four Alternatives 4. Dependent-Arising 5. Refuting a Self of Persons

Part Three: The Buddhist World

Introduction 1. The Selfless 2. Dependent-Arising of Cyclic Existence 3. The Four Noble Truths

Part Four: Systems

1. Self 2. Non-Buddhist Systems 3. Hinyāna 4. History of the Mahāyāna 5. Chittamātra 6. Mādhyamika

Part Five: Prāsaṅgika-Mādhyamika

1. The Prāsaṅgika School 2. Debate 3. Bhāvaviveka’s Criticism of Buddhapālita 4. Chandrakīrti’s Defense of Buddhapālita 5. Chandrakīrti’s Refutation of Bhāvaviveka 6. Prāsaṅgika in Tibet 7. Validation of Phenomena 8. Meditative Reasoning

Part Six: Translation: Emptiness In The Prāsaṅgika System

Introduction Contents

1. Background 2. Interpretation of Scripture 3. The Object of Negation 4. Refuting Inherently Existent Production 5. Other Types of Production 6. Dependent-Arising 7. Refuting a Self of Persons

Appendices

1. Types of Awareness 2. Other Interpretations of Dependent-Arising 3. Modes of Division of the Vaibhāṣhika Schools 4. Negatives 5. Proof Statements

Glossary Bibliography Notes Tibetan Text Emendations to the Tibetan Text List of Charts Index Dedication About the Author Copyright