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**Presence and Absence xii
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**Historical Survey xvii
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**Monastic Education and the Nonsectarian Movement xx
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**Life and Works of Mipam xxiii
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**The End of the Beginning xxxii
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** {{i|''Mipam’s Synthesis''|4}}
**Mipam’s Synthesis 4
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** {{i|''Two Truths''|6}}
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** {{i|''Buddha-Nature as the Unity of Appearance and Emptiness''|13}}
**Buddha-Nature as the Unity of Appearance and Emptiness 13
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** {{i|''Buddha-Nature as the Definitive Meaning''|20}}
**Buddha-Nature as the Definitive Meaning 20
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* {{i|Chapter 2. Middle Way of Prāsaṅgika and Yogācāra|27}}
 
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** {{i|''Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika''|28}}
**Introduction
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** {{i|''Dialectical Ascent''|39}}
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** {{i|''Foundations of Yogācāra''|45}}
**Dialectical Ascent
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** {{i|''Prāsaṅgika versus Yogācāra''|51}}
**Foundations of Yogācāra
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** {{i|''Other-Emptiness in the Jonang''|57}}
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** {{i|''Other-Emptiness and the Nyingma: Lochen Dharmaśrī''|66}}
**Introduction
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** {{i|''Another Emptiness? Emptiness of Self/Other''|71}}
**Other-Emptiness in the Jonang
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** {{i|''Phenomena and Suchness''|73}}
**Other-Emptiness and the Nyingma: Lochen Dharmaśrī
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** {{i|''De/limiting Emptiness''|81}}
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**Phenomena and Suchness
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**De/limiting Emptiness
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* {{i|Chapter 4. Buddha-Nature and the Ground of the Great Perfection|93}}
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**Appearance and Reality
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**Introduction
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**Establishing Buddha-Nature: The Immanent Buddha
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* {{i|Translations of Primary Texts|145}}
**Establishing Appearances as Divine
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** {{i|Appendix 1. ''Lion’s Roar: Exposition of Buddha-Nature''|147}}
**Buddha-Nature and a Difference Between Sūtra and Mantra
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**Conclusion
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*Conclusion 141
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*Bibliography 265
 
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Mipam on Buddha-Nature
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A comprehensive overview of Tibetan Buddhist thinker Mipam’s work on emptiness and Buddha-nature.

Mipam ( 'ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846–1912) is one of the most prolific thinkers in the history of Tibet and is a key figure in the Nyingma tradition of Buddhism. His works continue to be widely studied in the Tibetan cultural region and beyond. This book provides an in-depth account of Mipam’s view, drawing on a wide range of his works and offering several new translations. Douglas S. Duckworth shows how a dialectic of presence and absence permeates Mipam’s writings on the Middle Way and Buddha-nature.

Arguably the most important doctrine in Buddhism, Buddha-nature is, for Mipam, equivalent to the true meaning of emptiness; it is the ground of all and the common ground shared by sentient beings and Buddhas. This ground is the foundation of the path and inseparable from the goal of Buddhahood. Duckworth probes deeply into Mipam’s writings on Buddha-nature to illuminate its central place in a dynamic Buddhist philosophy. (Source: SUNY Press)

Citation Duckworth, Douglas S. Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. http://promienie.net/images/dharma/books/mipham_buddha-nature.pdf.