- Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Preface
- Editor’s Preface
- 1. The Evolution of Buddhist Thought
- 2. The Base and the Path within the Four Schools
- 3. The Vaibhashika School
- 4. The Sautrantika School
- The Sutra School
- Existent Objects
- Things and Nonthings
- Specifically Characterized and Generally Characterized Phenomena
- Real and Unreal Existent Objects
- The Relationship of Mind and Object
- The Reality of Material Objects
- Ultimate Truth and Conventional Truth
- Ultimate Truth in Sautrantika
- Conventional Truth in Sautrantika
- 5. The Chittamatra School
- The Texts Used in Chittamatra
- Chittamatra’s Base, Path, and Result
- The Three Natures
- Dependent Nature
- Imputed Nature
- Perfect Nature
- The Mind-Basis-of-All
- The Features of Mind-Basis-of-All
- The Properties of Mind-Basis-of-All
- Afflictive Mental Consciousness
- How an Object Exists According to Chittamatra
- Ultimate Truth and Conventional Truth According to Chittamatra
- 6. The Madhyamaka School
- The Major Texts and Teachers of the Madhyamaka School
- The Two Subschools
- The Importance of the Two Truths for Madhyamaka
- Conventional Truth in Madhyamaka
- The Meaning of Samvriti Satya
- The Accuracy of Direct Valid Cognizers
- How Inferences Realize an Object
- The Existence of External Objects
- Real and Unreal Conventional Truths
- Ultimate Truth in Madhyamaka
- Emptiness
- The Meaning of Paramarta Satya
- Ultimate Mind
- Ultimate Existence
- Ultimate Truth
- 7. Illusion and Reality
- The Relationship Between the Two Truths
- One Entity, Different Isolates
- The Faults If the Two Truths Were Different Entities
- How Things Exist
- The Truth That Conceals
- How Things Exist Conventionally
- The Sequence of Realizing the Two Truths
- How Realized Beings Perceive Relative Truths
- Illusion and Reality
- Wisdom or Dogma?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
- The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
- Also Available from The Foundation of Buddhist Thought Series
- Copyright
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