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Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness (Paperback)
By: Karma Phuntso

Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
 
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Author: Karma Phuntso
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ISBN: 9780415599986


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This book explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. It examines the critique by the leading Nyingma school philosopher Mipham (1846-1912), one of the Tibet's brightest and most versatile minds, formulated in his diverse writings. The book focuses on related issues such as what is negated by the doctrine of Emptiness, the nature of ultimate reality and the difference between 'extrinsic' and 'intrinsic' emptiness. These issues continue to be the subject of lively debate among contemporary exponents of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Karma Phuntso's book aptly undertakes a thematic and selective discussion of these debates and Mipham's qualms about the Gelukpa understanding of Emptiness in a mixture of narrative and analytic styles. For the first time, a major understanding of Emptiness, variant to the Gelukpa interpretation that has become dominant in both Tibet and the West, is revealed.

Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness, Karma Phuntso, Curzon Press, Paperback, 2005, 304 pp, $57.95

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