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Santaraksita’s The Ornament of the Middle Way is among the most important Mahayana Buddhist philosophical treatises to emerge on the Indian subcontinent. In many respects, it represents the culmination of more than 1,300 years of philosophical dialogue and inquiry since the time of the history Buddha, Sakyamuni, Santaraksita set forth the foundation of a syncretic approach to contemporary ideas by synthesizing the three major trends in Indian Buddhist thought at the time (the Madhyamaka thought of Nagarjuna, the Yogacara thought of Asanga, and the logical and epistemological thought of Dharmakirti) into one consistent and coherent system.
Santaraksita’s text is considered to be the quintessential exposition, or root text, of the school of Buddhist philosophical thought known in Tibet as Yogacara-Svatantrika-Madhyamaka. In addition to examining his ideas in their Indian context, this study looks at the way in which Santaraksita’s ideas have been understood by, and have been an influence on, Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Specifically, Blumenthal examines the way scholars from the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism have interpreted, represented, and incorporated Santaraksita’s ideas into their own philosophical project.
This is the first book-length study of Santaraksita’s Madhyamaka thought in any Western language. It includes a new translation of Santaraksita’s treaties and extensive extracts from his autocommentary. Also included is the first complete English translation of the primary Geluk commentary on Santaraksita’s treatise Gyel-tsab Je’s Remembering “The Ornament of the Middle Way”.

The Ornament of the Middle Way A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Shantarakshita 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Analysis of Texts and Arguments

Introduction

The Text Title, Homage, and Introduction

The Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument: Demonstrating That Entities Have No Ultimate Inherent Nature

The Application of the Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument

Analysis of Objects

The Refutation of Unitary Objects Asserted by Non-Buddhists

The Refutation of Unitary Objects Asserted by Buddhist Schools

The Refutation of Unitary Persons

The Refutation of Unitary Pervasive Entities

The Refutation of Gross, Unitary Entities

The Refutation of Unitary, Partless Particles

Analysis of Subjects

Analysis of Mind, Its Objects, and Its Means of Perception as Asserted in Other Buddhist Systems

Self-Cognizing Cognition (svasamvedana, rang rig), External Objects, and Images

Critique of an Epistemology Asserting Valid Cognition of True Images (satyakara) External to Consciousness

Analysis of Mind, Its Objects, and Its Means of Perception as Asserted in Non-Buddhist Systems

Critiques of Views Maintaining Unitary Consciousness

Further Critiques of Views Maintaining a Unitary Consciousness

Critiquing the Yogacara Views

Yogacara Proponents of True Images

Yogacara Proponents of False Images

Wrapping Up the Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument

Demonstrating That Phenomena Lack a Manifold Nature

Establishing the Pervasion: Entities Have No Nature at All

Examination of Conventional Truths

Refutation of Dissenting Arguments

Yogacara-Madhyamaka Synthesis

Part II: An Analysis of the Geluk Interpretation, Representation, and Criticism of the Yogacara-Svatantrika-Madhyamaka and the Madhyamaka Thought of Santaraksita

Introduction

Geluk Hermeneutics and Santaraksita

Path System Discrepancies: The Status of Hinayana Arhats

Geluk Presentation and Critique of Santaraksita’s Positions

Critical Analysis of the Geluk Presentation: What Santaraksita Has to Say

Autonomous Inferences (Svantantranumana)

The Geluk Critique

Santaraksita’s Arguments on the Use of Autonomous Inferences

The Two Truths

Geluk Presentation of the Two Truths According to the Yogacara-Svatantrika-Madhyamaka System

Santaraksita’s View

Self-Cognizing Cognition

Concluding Remarks

Part III: Translations

The Ornament of the Middle Way

Remembering The Ornament of the Middle Way

Appendices

Appendix 1: Outline of Topics in Madhyamakalamkara Based on Divisions Cited in Gyel-tsab’s Commentary

Appendix 2: dbU ma rgyan (Tibetan Text)

Appendix 3: dbU ma rgyan gyi brjed byang (Tibetan Text)

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