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| Editor's Preface | |
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| Buddhism in Context | |
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| The Quest for Inner Development | |
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| Religion in Today's World | |
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| Many Teachings, Many Paths | |
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| Maintaining One's Own Tradition | |
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| Sharing Each Other's Traditions | |
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| Learning from Other Traditions | |
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| The Foundations of Buddhism | |
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| Defining Features | |
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| The Buddha | |
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| The First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma | |
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| The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination | |
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| The Afflictions | |
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| Abandoning the Causes of Suffering | |
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| The Great Vehicle | |
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| The Mahayana School | |
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| Nagarjuna and the Great Vehicle | |
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| Origins of the Great Vehicle | |
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| Freedom from Suffering | |
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| Suffering and Compassion | |
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| Integrating All the Teachings | |
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| The Heart Sutra | |
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| The Text of the Heart Sutra | |
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| The Opening | |
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| The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras | |
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| Giving the Title and Paying Homage | |
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| The Origin of the Teaching | |
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| Essence and Form | |
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| Entering the Bodhisattva Path | |
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| The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara | |
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| Noble Sons and Noble Daughters | |
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| Buddha Nature | |
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| The Way Things Are | |
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| Selflessness in Context | |
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| Ultimate Bodhichitta | |
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| The Doctrine of No-self | |
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| The Four Seals | |
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| Interpreting Emptiness | |
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| The Two Types of Selflessness | |
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| The Mind-only Interpretation | |
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| Definitive Versus Provisional Interpretations | |
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| The Middle Way Interpretation | |
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| The Two Middle Way Schools | |
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| Emptiness and Dependent Origination | |
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| Developing an Unmistaken View of Reality | |
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| Correctly Refuting Intrinsic Existence | |
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| Understanding the Two Truths | |
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| Traditions of Interpretation | |
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| The Eight Aspects of Emptiness | |
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| Attaining the Result | |
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| The Emptiness of All Phenomena | |
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| Nirvana | |
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| The Mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom | |
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| The Implicit Meaning of the Heart Sutra | |
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| All Rejoice | |
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| The Way of the Bodhisattva | |
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| Generating Bodhichitta | |
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| A Gradual Approach | |
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| The Seven-Point Cause-and-Effect Method | |
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| Equalizing the Exchanging Oneself and Others | |
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| Self-Cherishing Versus Cherishing Others | |
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| The Practice of Giving and Taking | |
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| Generating Bodhichitta | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Thorough Elucidation of the Meaning of the Words: An Exposition of the "Heart of Wisdom" Jamyang Gawai Lodro (1429-1503) | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |