Groundless Paths

O-rgyan-'jigs-med-chos-kyi-dbaṅ-po <Dpal-sprul> (1808-1887):
Groundless Paths : the Prajñāparāmitā Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and its Commentaries in the Tibetan Nyingma Tradition / translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhölzl. - Ithaca, NY : Snow Lion Publications, 2012. - 893 S. : Ill. - (The Tsadra Foundation series)
ISBN 978-1-559-39375-1
US$ 54,95
DDC: 294.385; 294.3923

Beschreibung
The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the prajñaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the prajñaparamita sutras—the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through buddhahood.
   Groundless Paths contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries from the perspective of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. This study consists mainly of translations of Maitreya's famous text and two commentaries on it by Patrul Rinpoche. These are supplemented by three short texts on the paths and bhumis by the same author, as well as extensive excerpts from commentaries by six other Nyingma masters, including Mipham Rinpoche. Thus this book helps close a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the prajñaparamita sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism.
   Arya Maitreya's Ornament of Clear Realization, with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries, presents the complex dynamics of the path to liberation as a succession of realizations of the empty nature of all phenomena. This presentation is a powerful antidote to whatever two-dimensional views we might hold about spiritual experience and the journey to enlightenment. [Verlagsinformation]

Autor
PATRUL Rinpoche [O-rgyan-'jigs-med-chos-kyi-dbaṅ-po <Dpal-sprul> (1808-1887)]. Vgl. TBRC P270.

Übersetzer

KARL BRUNNHÖLZL was trained as a physician and presently works as a Tibetan translator and Buddhist teacher. He studied Tibetology, Buddhology, and Sanskrit at Hamburg University and Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy and practice the Marpa Institute for Translators in Kathmandu. Currently he works as a translator and interpreter for the Tsadra Foundation, Nalandabodhi, and the Nitartha Institute. In 2009 he was appointed as the first Western khenpo (abbot in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages) by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. He is the author and translator of The Center of the Sunlit Sky (2004), the first in-depth study of the Kagyu interpretation of Madhyamaka in a Western language; Straight from the Heart (2007), an anthology of Buddhist pith instructions; Nagarjuna's In Praise of Dharmadhatu (2007) with commentary by the Third Karmapa; and Luminous Heart (2009), the Third Karmapa on buddha nature, consciousness, and wisdom.

Quellen: Shambala Publications; Amazon; WorldCat; Library of Congress

Rückschau
Vom Übersetzer, Karl Brunnhölzl, haben wir in Indologica bereits die folgenden Werke erfaßt:
1. [21.02.2008] Nagarjuna: In Praise of Dharmadhatu
2. [24.01.2012] Gone Beyond
3. [21.02.2012] Prajñāpāramitā ...

Bibliographie: [1]

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