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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The General Presentation of Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition | |
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| The Transmission of Madhyamaka from India to Tibet and Its Relation to Vajrayana and Mahamudra | |
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| The Middle from Beginning to End | |
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| Madhyamaka Ground | |
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| What Is Reality? | |
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| No Ground for the Two Realities | |
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| The Detailed Explanation of the Two Realities | |
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| The Meaning of the Terms | |
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| Painting the Sky: A Description of Their Defining Characteristics | |
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| Are the Two Realities One or Different? | |
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| Seeming Divisions of the Seeming | |
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| Dividing Space: Divisions of the Ultimate | |
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| A Critical Analysis of Some Other Tibetan Views on the Two Realities in Centrism | |
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| The Definite Number of Two Realities and the Purpose of Understanding Them | |
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| The Emptiness of Emptiness | |
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| Freedom Is the Nature of Not Having a Nature | |
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| Elaborations on Simplicity | |
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| The Twenty Emptinesses | |
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| The Sixteen Emptinesses | |
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| The Two Types of Identitylessness | |
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| Lost Identity | |
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| Phenomenal Identitylessness | |
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| Personal Identitylessness | |
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| Are the Two Identitylessnesses One or Different? | |
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| The Purpose of Teaching Two Identitylessnesses | |
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| From Knowledge to Wisdom | |
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| Madhyamaka Path | |
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| How Can Madhyamaka Be a Personal Practice? | |
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| Reasoning and Debate in Centrism | |
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| Three Stages of Analysis by Nagarjuna and Aryadeva | |
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| Is Reasoning Reasonable? | |
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| Reasons and Negations | |
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| What Is the Object of Negation in Centrist Reasonings? | |
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| The Status of Valid Cognition in Centrism | |
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| Do Centrists Have a Thesis or Position? | |
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| Illusory Lions Killing Illusory Elephants: Empty Reasonings for Liberation | |
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| Some Essential Points of Centrist Reasoning | |
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| Disillusionment with Phenomenal Identity | |
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| The Five Great Madhyamaka Reasonings | |
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| Other Reasonings | |
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| Unmasking Personal Identity | |
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| The Result of Centrist Reasoned Analysis | |
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| Madhyamaka Meditation | |
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| Why Is Analytical Meditation Necessary? | |
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| Calm Abiding and Superior Insight | |
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| Analytical Meditation and Resting Meditation | |
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| Working with the Mind in Meditation and Daily Life | |
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| How to Practice a Session of Analytical Meditation | |
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| The Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness | |
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| Mental Nonengagement in Meditation | |
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| Madhyamaka Conduct | |
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| Madhyamaka Fruition | |
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| The Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists | |
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| Classifications of Centrism in India and Tibet | |
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| Refutation of Mistaken Assumptions about Autonomists and Consequentialists | |
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| The Actual Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists | |
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| How the Distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists by Later Tibetans Is a Novelty | |
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| The Origin of the Controversy between Autonomists and Consequentialists | |
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| Do Hearers and Solitary Realizers Realize Emptiness? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Is There Such a Thing as Shentong-Madhyamaka? | |
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| The Yogacara System in General | |
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| The System of the Lineage of Vast Activity | |
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| The Treatment of Yogacara and the Rangtong-Shentong Controversy in Tibet | |
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| The Single Final Intention of the Two Philosophical Systems of the Great Vehicle | |
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| The Distinction between Expedient and Definitive Meaning | |
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| An Outline of Some Major Differences between Mikyo Dorje's and Tsongkhapa's Interpretations of Centrism | |
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| The Bodhicaryavatara and Pawo Tsugla Trengwa | |
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| Some Remarks on the Bodhicaryavatara and Pawo Rinpoche's Commentary | |
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| The Ninth Chapter of Pawo Rinpoche's Commentary on The Entrance to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life | |
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| A Short Biography of the Second Pawo Rinpoche Tsugla Trengwa | |
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| Non-Buddhist Indian Schools | |
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| Tibetan Text of the Ninth Chapter of the Bodhicaryavatara | |
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| Glossary: English-Sanskrit-Tibetan | |
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| Glossary: Tibetan-Sanskrit-English | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |