- A Direct Path to the Buddha Within
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: The Tibetan Historical Context
- 1. The Development of Various Traditions of Interpreting Buddha Nature
- 2. Various Positions Related to Zhönu Pal’s Interpretation
- 3. A Short Account of the Most Important Events in Zhönu Pal’s Life
- Part II: Translation
- 4. Zhönu Pal’s Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā Commentary
- Translator’s Introduction
- Technical Notes
- The Commentary on the Treatise “Mahāyāna-Uttaratantra”: The Mirror Showing Reality Very Clearly (Introduction and Initial Commentaries)
- Introduction
- The Commentary for Those with Sharp Faculties
- The Commentary for Those with Average Faculties
- The Explanation of RGV I.1
- The Explanation of RGV I.2
- The Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha
- Buddha Nature and Its Purification through the Three Dharmacakras
- Part III: Zhönu Pal’s Views on Buddha Qualities, Emptiness, and Mahāmudrā
- 5. Buddha Qualities
- 6. Two Types of Emptiness
- 7. Zhönu Pal’s Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga
- The Ratnagotravibhāga as a Basis for Mahāmudrā Instructions
- The Three Dharmacakras: Mahāmudrā Hermeneutics
- The Mahāmudrā Approach of Yogic Direct Valid Cognitions
- Sūtra-Based Mahāmudrā Meditation
- The First Mahāmudrā Yoga of One-Pointedness
- The Second Mahāmudrā Yoga of Freedom from Mental Fabrications
- The Third Mahāmudrā Yoga of One Taste
- The Fourth Mahāmudrā Yoga of Nonmeditation
- The Four Mahāmudrā Yogas and the Ratnagotravibhāga
- Zhönu Pal’s Justification of a Sudden Mahāmudrā Path
- Pairs of Paradoxes
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Table of Tibetan Transliteration
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Indian Text Index
- Copyright
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