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CONTENTS: Ascertaining Certainty About the View
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Coming & Goings: Remarks on the Outer Life of Khenpo Tsultrim
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xi
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Foreword
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xv
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Preface
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xvii
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The Root Text
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1
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How To Analyse with Prajna
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11
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1.
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The Reasons Why a Completely Pure View is Necessary
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19
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2.
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How to Give Rise to the Prajna that Realizes No-self
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23
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3.
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The Preliminaries: An Explanation of the Four Seals, Which Epitomize the Sutras
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29
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4.
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Entering Into The Path of Giving Up the Two Extremes
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41
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4.1
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The Way of Giving Up the Two Extremes in General
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41
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4.2
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In Particular, To Explain the Tradition of the Madhyamaka
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49
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4.2.1
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In General, The Identification of Emptiness
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52
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4.2.2
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In Particular, The Explanation of the Rangtong System
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54
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4.2.3
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The Madhyamaka Shentong System
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80
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5.
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The Main Topic: An Analysis of the Two Types of No-self
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107
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5.1
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The Necessity for Teaching No-self
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107
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5.2
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The Actual Analysis of No-self
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111
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5.2.1
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The No-self of Phenomena
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112
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5.2.1.1
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The Key Point to Be Ascertained at the Outset
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113
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5.2.1.2
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The Essential Nature of the Self to Negated
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114
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5.2.1.3
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The Reason Why it is Necessary to Refute This [self of phenomena]
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115
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5.2.1.4
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How Specific Philosophical Systems Realize [the no-self of phenomena]
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117
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5.2.1.5
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The Ascertaining [the no-self of phenomena] Through the Reasoning of the Madhyamaka
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119
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5.2.2
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Analysis of the No-self of the Individual
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143
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5.2.2.1
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Ascertaining the Key Point
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143
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5.2.2.2
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[Identifying] its Essential Nature
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145
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5.2.2.3
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Why it is Necessary to Negate It
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147
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5.2.2.4
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The Difference in the Realization of the Specific Philosophical Systems
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149
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5.2.2.5
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The Way of Ascertaining it Through Madhyamaka Reasonings
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151
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5.2.3
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An Explanation of the Various Classifications Involving Both [types] of No-self
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172
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5.2.3.1
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To Examine Whether [they] are the Same or Different
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172
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5.2.3.2
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The Necessity of Explaining [no-self] in Two [aspects]
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173
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5.2.3.3
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An Analysis of What is to be Negated in Relation to the Two [types of no-self]
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174
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5.2.3.4
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Valid Cognizers Giving Rise to Certainty
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177
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5.2.3.5
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An Explanation of Correct Reasonings Which Analyze for the Ultimate
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180
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5.2.4
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Clarifying the Ultimate [view resulting from] Analysis According to the Specific Madhyamaka Schools
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184
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5.2.4.1
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The Rangtong School
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184
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5.2.4.2
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The Shentong School
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186
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5.2.5
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the Instruction Which Profoundly Comprehends as one the Thought of the Two Chariots
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192
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To Classify the Special Features of the Views of the Mantrayana |
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6.1 |
In General, the Assertions of the Madhyamaka Masters |
195 |
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6.2 |
In Particular, to Present the Assertions of Gar Gyi Wangpo |
197 |
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The View of the Unborn Union in Brief |
199 |
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Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche's Verses |
203 |
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Songs of Jetsun Milarepa |
211 |
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The Buddhist Schools |
220 |
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Notes |
221 |
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Glossary of Terms |
227 |
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Bibliography |
253 |
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Index |
257 |
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About the Jamgon Kongtruls |
263 |
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Meditation Centre Information |
268 |
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Long Life Prayer for Khenpo Tsultrim |
269 |
