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Contents: The Sun of Wisdom |
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Translator's Preface |
vii |
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Introduction |
ix |
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Opening Homage |
1 |
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An Examination of Causal Conditions |
3 |
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An Examination of Coming and Going |
11 |
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An Examination of the Sources of Consciousness
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19 |
4. |
An Examination of the Aggregates |
27 |
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An Examination of the Elements |
37 |
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An Examination of Desire and the Desirous One |
43 |
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An Examination of the Composite |
47 |
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An Examination of Actors and Actions |
55 |
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An Examination of What Comes First |
59 |
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An Examination of Fire and Firewood |
65 |
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An Examination of Samsara |
71 |
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An Examination of Suffering |
77 |
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An Examination of the Precise Nature of Reality |
83 |
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An Examination of Contact |
87 |
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An Examination of Things and the Absence of Things |
93 |
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An Examination of Bondage and Liberation |
99 |
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An Examination of Karmic Actions and Results |
109 |
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An Examination of Self and Phenomena |
113 |
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An Examination of Time |
123 |
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An Examination of Collections |
129 |
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An Examination of Emergence and Decay |
137 |
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An Examination of the Tathagata |
141 |
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An Examination of Mistakes |
147 |
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An Examination of the Four Noble Truths |
155 |
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An Examination of Nirvana |
161 |
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An Examination of the Twelve Links of Existence |
171 |
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An Examination of Views |
177 |
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Concluding Homage |
181 |
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Appendix 1. Root Verses from The Fundamental
Wisdom of the Middle Way |
183 |
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Appendix 2. The Heart of Wisdom Sutra |
193 |
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Appendix 3. The Twenty Emptinesses from Chandrakirti's
Entering the Middle Way |
197 |
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Appendix 4. An Authentic Portrait of the Middle
Way: A Vajra Song of Realization of the Lord of Yogis Milarepa |
205 |
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Glossary |
207 |