Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness - Komito, David Ross
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This volume contains a translation of Seventy Stanzas, a fundamental work of Nagarjuna on the Madhyamika system of Buddhist philosophy, along with a commentary on it from the Prasangika viewpoint by Geshe Sonam Rinchen. David Komito summarizes basic Buddhist doctrines on perception and the creation of concepts, which have traditionally served as the backdrop for Nagarjuna's teachings about how people consistently misperceive and misunderstand the nature of the reality in which they live and the means through which they experience it. This book will interest Buddhist practitioners, scholars,…mehr

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This volume contains a translation of Seventy Stanzas, a fundamental work of Nagarjuna on the Madhyamika system of Buddhist philosophy, along with a commentary on it from the Prasangika viewpoint by Geshe Sonam Rinchen. David Komito summarizes basic Buddhist doctrines on perception and the creation of concepts, which have traditionally served as the backdrop for Nagarjuna's teachings about how people consistently misperceive and misunderstand the nature of the reality in which they live and the means through which they experience it. This book will interest Buddhist practitioners, scholars, and psychologists who seek a deeper understanding of Buddhist psychology and epistemology.
Autorenporträt
David Ross Komito received his PhD from Indiana University. He has published numerous articles on Buddhism and its relation to Psychology and Ecology and is the editor of Paths and Grounds of Guhyasamaja According to Arya Nagarjuna. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Wesleyan University, John F. Kennedy University and is currently at the University of San Francisco. Geshe Sonam Rinchen (1933–2013) studied at Sera Je Monastery and in 1980 received the Lharampa Geshe degree. He taught Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, India, as well as in dharma centers around the world. His books include How Karma Works: The Twelve Links of Dependent-Arising, The Heart Sutra: An Oral Teaching, The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas: An Oral Teaching, and more.