
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
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Editorās Preface
- Technical Note
- Introduction
- 1 Why Insight Is Needed
- 2 Relying on Definitive Sources
- 3 The Stages of Entering into Reality
- 4 Misidentifying the Object to Be Negated
- 5 Dependent Arising and Emptiness
- 6 Rational Analysis
- 7 Valid Establishment
- 8 Conventional Existence
- 9 Production Is Not Negated
- 10 Not Negating Enough
- 11 The Actual Object to Be Negated
- 12 Qualifying the Object of Negation
- 13 Misinterpretations of the SvÄtantrika/PrÄsaį¹ gika Distinction
- 14 Refuting Misinterpretations of the SvÄtantrika/PrÄsaį¹ gika Distinction
- 15 Our Interpretation of the SvÄtantrika/PrÄsaį¹ gika Distinction
- 16 Our Critique of SvÄtantrika Does Not Hurt Our Own Arguments
- 17 Analyzing a Chariot
- 18 The Person Lacks Inherent Nature
- 19 The Person Appears Like an Illusion
- 20 Objects Lack Inherent Nature
- 21 Eliminating Obstructions
- 22 Insight Requires Analysis
- 23 Cultivating Insight in Meditation
- 24 Uniting Åamatha and VipaÅyanÄ
- 25 Summary and Conclusion
- Appendix: Outline of the Text
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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