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Title

The Karmapa's middle way : feast for the fortunate / the Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje ; translated under the guidance of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and according to the explanations of Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen & Acharya Tashi Wangchuk by Tyler Dewar ; with editing by Andy Karr.

Author

Dbang-phyug-rdo-rje, Karma-pa IX, 1556-1603.

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion publications, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Karr, Andy.
• Candrakīrti.
• Atīśa, 982-1054.

Description

xx, 794 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Marked by eloquent poetry, vigorous and extensive analysis, and heart instructions on breaking through the veils of confusion to independently experience the true nature of things, The Karmapa's Middle Way contains the Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje's comprehensive commentary on the Indian master Chandrakirti's seminal text, the Madhyamakavatara, or Entrance to the Middle Way. This commentary, Feast for the Fortunate, is the Ninth Karmapa's abridgement of the Eighth Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje's masterpiece, the Chariot of the Takpo Kagyu Siddhas. In it readers will find previously unavailable material on the Karmapas' Middle Way view and a rare window into a philosophically charged era of Middle Way exposition in Tibetan Buddhism." "This book contains Chandrakirti's root text to the Entrance to the Middle Way and its commentary by the Ninth Karmapa, entitled Feast for the Fortunate; an informative Introduction detailing the history of the Middle Way, key Middle Way philosophical principles, and the main points of each chapter of the text; a thoroughly annotated translation of a famous excerpt of Chandrakirti's Lucid Words; and other useful appendices and reference materials."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Nitartha Institute series

Uniform Title

• ʼJug ṭik dwags brgyud grub paʼi shing rta bde bar ʼdren byed skal bzang dgaʼ ston. English
• Nitartha Institute series.

Alternative Title

ʼJug ṭik dwags brgyud grub paʼi shing rta bde bar ʼdren byed skal bzang dgaʼ ston.

Subject

• Candrakīrti
• Atīśa, 982-1054
• Kar-ma-pa (Sect) > Doctrines > Early works to 1800

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [721]-770) and index.

Contents

An Aspiration by His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa -- A Statement by His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa -- A Verse on the Essence of the Middle Way / Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche -- Foreword / Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche -- Feast for the Fortunate: A Commentary on the Entrance to the Middle Way That Easily Pulls Along the Chariot of the Takpo Kagyu Siddhas -- Lineages -- The Title and Translators Homage -- The Three Causes of Bodhisattvas -- Ground 1. Supreme Joy -- Ground 2. The Stainless -- Ground 3. The Luminous -- Ground 4. The Radiant -- Ground 5. Difficult to Overcome -- Ground 6. The Manifest -- Ground 7. Gone Far Beyond -- Ground 8. The Immovable -- Ground 9. Excellent Intelligence -- Ground 10. Cloud of Dharma -- Qualities of the Bodhisattva Grounds -- The Resultant Ground of Buddhahood -- Conclusion -- App. I. Excerpt from Lucid Words -- App. II. Atisha's Key Instructions of the Middle Way -- App. III. The Five Great Reasonings of the Middle Way -- App. IV. How to Do Analytical Meditation on the Entrance to the Middle Way: A Brief Guide -- App. V. The Root Text of the Entrance to the Middle Way -- App. VI. The Karmapa's Outline for Feast for the Fortunate.

ISBN

• 9781559392891 (alk. paper)
• 1559392894 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008005238
• 40016030558

OCLC

• ocn172569468
• 172569468
• SCSB-13627861

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries