The perfection of wisdom tradition : three essential works / Ngok Lotsāwa, Gyaltsab Jé, and Pema Karpo ; translated by Gareth Sparham.

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PublicationNew York, NY, USA : Wisdom, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxvi, 862 pages ; 24 cm.
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Other author/creatorSparham, Gareth translator http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84238029 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n84238029.
Other author/creatorBlo-ldan-shes-rab, Rngog-lo-chen-po, 1059-1109. Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin paʼi man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs paʼi rgyan gyi ṭīk chung zhes bya ba. English.
Other author/creatorDar-ma-rin-chen, Rgyal-tshab-rje, 1364-1432. Mngon par rtogs paʼi rim pa nyams su len tshul theg mchog sgo ʼbyed. English.
Other author/creatorPadma-dkar-po, ʼBrug-chen IV, 1527-1592. Mngon par rtogs paʼi rgyan gyi ʼgrel pa rje bstun byams paʼi zhal lung. English.
Uniform titleTripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā. English.
SeriesThe library of Tibetan classics ;
Library of Tibetan classics ; v. 16. ^A715931
Abstract "Study of the Perfection of Wisdom sūtras in Tibet has historically been through commentaries on the Ornament for the Clear Realizations (Abhisamayālaṃkāra), a short verse distillation in eight chapters attributed to Maitreya. The three works in the present volume reflect the diversity of the Tibetan commentarial tradition. Ngok's Topical Summary marks the beginning in Sangphu Monastery of the most influential Perfection of Wisdom commentarial tradition. Ngok intends his short work as a supplement to his translation of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra and its major commentaries by Ārya-Vimuktisena and Haribhadra. It leads the reader briskly through the Abhisamayālaṃkāra's seventy topics, presenting what would become a standard framework for explaining the Perfection of Wisdom in Tibet. Gyaltsab's Way to Practice the Sequence of Clear Realizations, structured as a defense of the meditation system set forth by his guru Tsongkhapa in the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, links the stages of the path expanded into the seventy topics with the actual practices of an accomplished yogi. Working outward from the middle of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra's fourth chapter, it explains how the Perfection of Wisdom is integrated into a total and complete meditational practice for the attainment of buddhahood. The great Drukpa Kagyü scholar Kunkhyen Pema Karpo's Sacred Words of Lord Maitreya is the most detailed and systematic of the three works, supplementing explanations of the Perfection of Wisdom based on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra with the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra (Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras), the Uttaratantra (Delineation of the Jewel Lineage), and Daṃṣṭrāsena's or Vasubandhu's Bṛhaṭṭīkā (Long Explanation of the Three Sūtras). It is an example of a mature Perfection of Wisdom commentary, demonstrating the brilliance of its famous author"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageText in English; translation from Tibetan.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Perfection of wisdom tradition New York, NY, USA : Wisdom, [2025] 9798890700094
LCCN 2024056915
ISBN9780861714568
ISBN0861714563 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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