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** {{i|Navigating the Middle Ways|29}}
 
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** {{i|The Nature of Liberating Knowledge|41}}
 
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** {{i|Shākya mchog ldan and the Bka’ brgyud Mahāmudrā Tradition|45}}
 
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** {{i|Life, Writings and Influences|51}}
 
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** {{i|Madhyamaka and the Dialectic of Emptiness: Rang stong and<br>Gzhan stong|57}}
 
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** {{i|Mahāmudrā and Buddha Nature|74}}
 
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** {{i|Direct Perception and Nondual Wisdom|101}}
 
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** {{i|The Great Seal in Shākya mchog ldan’s Mahāmudrā trilogy|109}}
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*** {{i|Mahāmudrā: What it is and What it is Not|109}}
 
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*** {{i|Madhyamaka, Mantrayāna and Mahāmudrā|116}}
 
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*** {{i|The Problem of Cessation|124}}
 
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*** {{i|Contested Methods of Realization|127}}
 
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** {{i|Responses to Sa skya Pandita’s Criticism of Bka’ brgyud Mahāmudrā|131}}
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*** {{i|A Philosophical Defence and Justification of Mahāmudrā|131}}
 
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*** {{i|Defending Mahāmudrā Views|135}}
 
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**** {{i|Mental Nonengagement (amanasikāra) and the Fire of Wisdom|139}}
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** {{i|Overview|149}}
 
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** {{i|Life, Writings and Influences|156}}
 
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*** {{i|Buddha Nature Endowed with Qualities|184}}
 
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*** {{i|On the Unity of the Two Truths|200}}
 
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*** {{i|Understanding Coemergence: the Inseparability of Samsāra and<br>Nirvana|217}}
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** {{i|The Differentiation and Identification Models|229}}
 
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*** {{i|Nature of Reality|275}}
 
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*** {{i|On the Prospect of a Groundless Ground|314}}
 
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*** {{i|On Whether or Not a Buddha has Wisdom|320}}
 
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** {{i|Life, Writings and Influences|347}}
 
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** {{i|Emptiness and the Hermeneutics of the Three Turnings|352}}
 
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** {{i|Hermeneutics of Mahāmudrā as Ground and Path|356}}
 
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** {{i|The Two Faces of Mahāmudrā: the Modes of Abiding and Error|357}}
 
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*** {{i|Mahāmudrā in the Mode of Error ( ’khrul lugs phyag chen)|363}}
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*** {{i|Yang dgon pa on the Two Modes of Mahāmudrā|369}}
 
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*** {{i|Interpretations of the Mahāmudrā Distinction|378}}
 
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*** {{i|Nonconceptual Knowing in the Shadow of the Bsam yas Debate|399}}
 
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'''Volume Two'''
 
'''Volume Two'''

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This two-volume publication explores the complex philosophy of Mahāmudrā that developed in Tibetan Dwags po Bka’ brgyud traditions between the 15th and 16th centuries CE. It examines the attempts to articulate and defend Bka’ brgyud views and practices by four leading post-classical thinkers: (1) Shākya mchog ldan (1423‒1507), a celebrated yet controversial Sa skya scholar who developed a strong affiliation with the Karma Bka’ brgyud Mahāmudrā tradition in the last half of his life, (2) Karma phrin las Phyogs las rnam rgyal (1456‒1539), a renowned Karma Bka’ brgyud scholar-yogin and tutor to the Eighth Karma pa, (3) the Eighth Karma pa himself, Mi bskyod rdo rje (1507‒1554), who was among the most erudite and influential scholar-hierarchs of his generation, (4) and Padma dkar po (1527‒1592), Fourth ’Brug chen of the ’Brug pa Bka’ brgyud lineage who is generally acknowledged as its greatest scholar and systematizer. It is an important academic work published in the Vienna series WSTB and is divided into two volumes: the first offers a detailed philosophical analysis of the authors’ principal views and justifications of Mahāmudrā against the background of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist doctrines on mind, emptiness and buddha nature; the second comprises an annotated anthology of their seminal writings on Mahāmudrā accompanied by critical editions and introductions. These two volumes are the result of research that was generously funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) from 2012 to 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Klaus-Dieter Mathes. The project was entitled “‘Emptiness of Other’ (Gzhan stong) in the Tibetan ‘Great Seal’ (Mahāmudrā) Traditions of the 15th and 16th Centuries” (FWF Project number P23826-G15). (Source: WSTB Description)

Citation Higgins, David, and Martina Draszczyk. Mahāmudrā and the Middle Way: Post-Classical Kagyü Discourses on Mind, Emptiness and Buddha-Nature. Vol. II, Translations, Critical Texts, Bibliography and Index. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 90.2. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2016.

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

advaya - Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. Skt. अद्वय Tib. གཉིས་མེད་ Ch. 不二

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