The Awakening of Faith (1967)

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• • Foreword, by Wm. Theodore de Baryv
  • Prefacevii
  • Introduction1

•                                                       The Awakening of Faith21

• • Invocation23
  • The Contents of the Discourse24
• Part 1 The Reasons for Writing25
• Part 2 Outline28
• Part 3 Interpretation31
  • Chapter One: Revelation of True Meaning31
    • I. One Mind and Its Two Aspects31
      • A. The Mind in Terms of the Absolute32
        • 1. Truly Empty34
        • 2. Truly Nonempty35
      • B. The Mind in Terms of Phenomena36
        • 1. The Storehouse Consciousness36
          • a. The Aspect of Enlightenment37
            • (1) Original Enlightenment37
            • (2) The Process of Actualization of Enlightenment38
              • (a) Purity of Wisdom41
              • (b) Suprarational Functions41
            • (3) The Characteristics of the Essence of Enlightenment42
          • b. The Aspect of Nonenlightenment43
          • c. The Relationships Between Enlightenment and Nonenlightenment45
            • (1) Identity45
            • (2) Nonidentity46
        • 2. The Cause and Conditions of Man’s Being in Samsara46
          • a. Mind47
          • b. Consciousness49
          • c. Defiled States of Mind51
          • d. Comments on the Terms Used in the Foregoing Discussion52
        • 3. The Characteristics of Beings in Samsara54
          • a. Permeation of Ignorance56
          • b. Permeation of Suchness58
            • (1) Permeation Through Manifestation of the Essence of Suchness59
            • (2) Permeation Through Influences61
              • (a) The Specific Coordinating Causes61
              • (b) The General Coordinating Causes63
    • II. The Essence Itself and the Attributes of Suchness, or The Meanings of Mahā64
      • A. The Greatness of the Essence of Suchness64
      • B. The Greatness of the Attributes of Suchness65
      • C. The Greatness of the Influences of Suchness67
    • III. From Samsara to Nirvana72

• • Chapter Two: The Correction of Evil Attachments73
    • I. The Biased Views Held by Ordinary Men74
    • II. The Biased Views Held by the Hinayanists78

• • Chapter Three: Analysis of the Types of Aspiration for Enlightenment, or The Meanings of Yāna80
    • I. The Aspiration for Enlightenment Through the Perfection of Faith80
    • II. The Aspiration for Enlightenment Through Understanding and Deeds86
    • III. The Aspiration for Enlightenment Through Insight87

• Part 4 On Faith and Practice92
  • On Four Faiths92
  • On Five Practices93
  • The Practice of Cessation96
  • The Practice of Clear Observation100

• Part 5 Encouragement of Practice and the Benefits Thereof103

• • Notes105

• • A Selected Bibliography119

• • Index123

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見

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gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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rang stong - The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena. Tib. རང་སྟོང་

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tathāgatagarbha - Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Skt. तथागतगर्भ Tib. དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ Ch. 如来藏

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prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

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gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性

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