Buddha-nature, Mind and the Problem of Gradualism in a Comparative Perspective
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| + | I. The Buddhist notion of an immanent absolute as a problem in comparative religious and philosophical hermeneutics 17 | ||
| + | II. The great debate between 'Gradualists' and 'Simulaneists' in eighth-century Tibet 56 | ||
| + | III. Models of Buddhism in contact and opposition in Tibet: Religious and Philosophical issues in the great debate of Bsam Yas 93 | ||
| + | IV. The background to some issues in the great debate 138 | ||
| + | 1. The giving up of activity and karman 141 | ||
| + | 2. Voluntary death, self-immolation and the samasīsi(n) 147 | ||
| + | 3. The gradual as opposed to the simultaneous/instantaneous and the procedure of leaping 150 | ||
| + | 4. The conjunction of quieting and insight and of means and discriminative knowledge 182 | ||
| + | 5. Absence of notion (saṃjñā) and non-mentation (amanasikāra) 192 | ||
| + | 6. On a Bhāvanākrama in Bhavya's Madhyamakaratnapradīpa 206 | ||
| + | 7. Silence 209 | ||
| + | Index 213 | ||
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| + | |QuotesTabContent={{ Blockquote | A fundamental problem at issue very briefly stated, the relation between the Fruit (<i>phala</i> = <i>'bras bu</i>) — i.e. ultimate and perfect Awakening (anuttarasamyaksambodhi) in buddhahood —, the spiritual Ground (gži) — known as the tathāgatagarbha or Buddha-nature — and the Path (mārga = lam) in all its stages. | David Seyfort Ruegg, page 6, Buddha-nature, The Mind and The Problem of Gradualism in a Comparative Perspective }} | ||
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Extensive typological and structural studies in Indian religions and philosophies, or in the traditions of Buddhism, have been few. Little attention has been given to the problems in intercultural transmission raised by the spread of Indian thought and civilization northwards and eastwards, and even less to discovering comparable elements in the different Indian religious and philosophical traditions.
In this book the author investigates a pair of themes in Buddhist thought by considering, in historical and comparative outline, their treatment in some traditions of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. He refers also to parallels in non-Buddhist Indian thought and in Chinese Buddhism. The two themes are 'nature' and 'nurture' in the twin realms of soteriology and gnoseology. (Source: inside jacket)
| Citation | Ruegg, David Seyfort. Buddha-Nature, Mind and the Problem of Gradualism in a Comparative Perspective: On the Transmission and Reception of Buddhism in India and Tibet. Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion 13. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1989. https://archive.org/details/buddhanaturemindproblemofgradualismincomparativeperspectivetransmissionbuddhismi_132_P/mode/2up. |
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