Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
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Steps on the Path to Enlightenment

A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo. Volume 5: Insight

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Steps on the Path to Enlightenment

A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo. Volume 5: Insight

About this book

The final installment of the Steps on the Path to Enlightenment series examines the nature of reality with a master class in Buddhist Middle Way philosophy and meditation. The late Geshe Sopa was a refugee monk from Tibet sent to the United States by the Dalai Lama in 1963. He became a professor at the University of Wisconsin, training a generation of Western Buddhist scholars, and was a towering figure in the transmission of the Buddhism to the West. In this fifth and final volume of his commentary on Lama Tsongkhapa's masterwork on the graduated steps of the Buddhist path, Geshe Sopa explains the practice of superior insight, or wisdom, the pinnacle of the bodhisattva's perfections. All the Buddhist practices are for the purpose of developing wisdom, for it is wisdom that liberates from the cycle of suffering. All other positive actions, from morality to deep states of meditation, have no power to liberate unless they are accompanied by insight into the nature of reality. With unparalled precision, Geshe Sopa unpacks this central principle with scholarly virtuosity, guiding the reader through the progressive stages of realization.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  5. Editor’s Preface
  6. Technical Note
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Why Insight Is Needed
  9. 2 Relying on Definitive Sources
  10. 3 The Stages of Entering into Reality
  11. 4 Misidentifying the Object to Be Negated
  12. 5 Dependent Arising and Emptiness
  13. 6 Rational Analysis
  14. 7 Valid Establishment
  15. 8 Conventional Existence
  16. 9 Production Is Not Negated
  17. 10 Not Negating Enough
  18. 11 The Actual Object to Be Negated
  19. 12 Qualifying the Object of Negation
  20. 13 Misinterpretations of the Svātantrika/Prāsaį¹…gika Distinction
  21. 14 Refuting Misinterpretations of the Svātantrika/Prāsaį¹…gika Distinction
  22. 15 Our Interpretation of the Svātantrika/Prāsaį¹…gika Distinction
  23. 16 Our Critique of Svātantrika Does Not Hurt Our Own Arguments
  24. 17 Analyzing a Chariot
  25. 18 The Person Lacks Inherent Nature
  26. 19 The Person Appears Like an Illusion
  27. 20 Objects Lack Inherent Nature
  28. 21 Eliminating Obstructions
  29. 22 Insight Requires Analysis
  30. 23 Cultivating Insight in Meditation
  31. 24 Uniting Śamatha and Vipaśyanā
  32. 25 Summary and Conclusion
  33. Appendix: Outline of the Text
  34. Glossary
  35. Notes
  36. Bibliography
  37. Index
  38. Also Available from Wisdom Publications by Geshe Lhundub Sopa
  39. About Wisdom Publications
  40. Copyright