- Realizing the Profound View
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface by Bhikṣuṇī Thubten Chodron
- Abbreviations
- Introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- 1 The Seven-Point Analysis: How Does a Car Exist?
- Analysis Relates Back to Experience
- The Main Arguments to Establish Emptiness
- The Selflessness of Persons and of Phenomena
- The Chariot Travels through Time
- One and Different, One Nature and Different Natures
- How Does a Car Exist?
- Conclusion from Examining the Seven Points
- Benefits of Contemplating the Seven Points
- What Is Emptiness?
- 2 Refutations Similar to Candrakīrti’s Seven Points
- 3 The Selflessness of Persons: Seven Points
- Introduction to the Seven-Point Reasoning
- Is the Person One and the Same as the Aggregates?
- Examining the Mental Consciousness and the Clear-Light Mind in Particular
- Is the Person Inherently Different from the Aggregates?
- Do the Self and the Aggregates Exist Inherently in Any Other Way?
- The Tathāgata Is Empty Yet Exists
- 4 The Person Is Not the Six Elements
- Nāgārjuna: How Is the Self Related to the Six Elements?
- Phenomena Are Empty but Exist Nominally
- Pāli Tradition: The Six Elements Are Not the Self
- The Emptiness of Mine
- Innate Self-Grasping Ignorance
- Meditation: The Four Essential Points
- Checking Your Realization
- Does the Person Exist Inherently on the Conventional Level?
- How Does the Body Exist?
- 5 Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence
- 6 The Selflessness of Phenomena: Diamond Slivers
- Refuting Inherently Existent Arising
- Does the Effect Exist in the Cause?
- Do Things Arise from an Inherently Existent Other?
- Refuting Arising from Both Itself and Other
- Do Things Arise Randomly without a Cause?
- Benefits of Meditating on Diamond Slivers
- Results Arise Dependently
- When to Qualify with “Inherently”
- Conclusion from the Reasoning of Diamond Slivers
- 7 Does the World Exist Objectively?
- 8 The Selflessness of All Existents: Dependent Arising
- Dependent Arising: The Monarch of Reasonings
- Dependent Arising Proves Emptiness
- Levels of Understanding Dependent Arising
- Threefold Presentation of Dependent Arising
- Twofold Presentation of Dependent Arising
- Three Criteria for Conventional Existence
- Other Presentations of Dependent Arising
- The Various Levels of Dependence Are Related
- 9 Gaining the Correct View
- 10 The Path Pleasing to the Buddha
- The Importance of Realizing Profound Emptiness
- The Initial Realization of Emptiness That Pleases the Buddha
- When Appearance and Emptiness Are Grasped as Distinct
- The Measure of Having Culminated the Analysis of the View
- A Unique Feature of Prāsaṅgikas
- Summary
- How to Meditate on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
- 11 Illusion-Like Existence
- 12 Self and Selflessness in the Pāli Tradition
- 13 The Pāli Tradition: Eliminating Defilements
- 14 The Pāli Sūtras and the Prāsaṅgika View
- Notes
- Glossary
- Recommended Reading
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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