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| An Aspiration by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje | |
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| Foreword by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The prajnaparamita sutras | |
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| The Abhisamayalamkara and its commentaries | |
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| What is the view of the Abhisamayalamkara? | |
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| The Abhisamayalamkara in its traditional setting | |
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| The place of the prajnaparamita sutras and the Abhisamayalamkara in modern scholarship | |
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| Is there any practical relevance to the Abhisamayalamkara? | |
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| The Abhisamayalamkara as a contemplative manual | |
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| Some remarks on the distinct exegetical approaches of the commentaries by the Eighth Karmapa and the Fifth Shamarpa | |
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| Overview of the present three-volume study of commentaries on the AA | |
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| Translation: A Concise Elucidation of the Abhisamayalamkara (Topics One to Three)<sup>1</sup> | |
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| Paying homage, which is the cause for other persons giving rise to openness for the fruitional mother | |
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| The purpose and the connection, which are the causes for others giving rise to openness for this treatise | |
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| The eight topics as what is to be explained | |
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| The knowledge of all aspects (what is to be attained) | |
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| The generation of bodhicitta (the motivation) | |
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| The instructions that teach the means of practice | |
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| The explanation of the branches of penetration (the result of practicing the instructions) | |
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| The disposition as the foundation for the arising of practice | |
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| The focal object of practice | |
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| The aim of practice | |
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| The armorlike practice in six sets of six | |
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| The practice of ninefold engagement | |
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| The practice of the seventeen equipments | |
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| The practice of final deliverance | |
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| The knowledge of the path (the means to attain the knowledge of all aspects) | |
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| The causes of the knowledge of the path | |
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| The manner of the knowledge of the path of sravakas | |
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| The manner of the knowledge of the path of pratyekabuddhas | |
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| The manner of the knowledge of the path of bodhisattvas | |
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| The path of seeing | |
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| The path of familiarization | |
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| The function of the path of familiarization | |
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| The path of familiarization as aspiration, which accumulates virtue | |
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| Its benefit | |
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| The path of familiarization as dedication, which makes virtue not going to waste | |
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| The path of familiarization as rejoicing, which makes virtue increase | |
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| The nature of the uninterrupted path-the path of familiarization as accomplishment | |
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| The nature of the path of liberation-the pure path of familiarization | |
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| The knowledge of entities (the root of the knowledge of all aspects, which includes the points to go astray) | |
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| The nature of the knowledge of entities | |
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| The reason for being close or distant | |
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| The divisions of antagonistic factors and remedies | |
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| The training (the engagement) | |
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| The path of seeing (the fruition of engagement) | |
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| Selected General Topics From Jg and Jns | |
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| The knowledge of all aspects | |
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| Bodhicitta | |
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| JG's presentation | |
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| JNS's presentation | |
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| The instructions | |
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| JG's presentation | |
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| JNS's presentation | |
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| The two realities | |
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| General presentation | |
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| The way in which the two realities become the objects of the wrong ideas of apprehending them as mutually exclusive | |
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| The way in which the two realities are not mutually exclusive | |
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| The qualms that are to be eliminated | |
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| The reasoning that is the means for eliminating these qualms | |
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| The manner of eliminating said qualms | |
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| The path of preparation | |
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| The four stages of the path of preparation | |
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| The focal objects and aspects of the path of preparation | |
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| The four conceptions in the context of the path of preparation | |
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| The disposition | |
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| General explanation | |
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| The disposition is not a nonimplicative negation | |
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| The single yana and buddha nature in all beings | |
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| Other commentaries on the disposition | |
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| The focal object of practice | |
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| The equipment of wisdom | |
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| The nature of phenomena and wisdom in relation to being self-empty versus other-empty | |
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| The explanation of emptiness (the object) and the way in which it is observed by wisdom (its subject) | |
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| Various ways of asserting the definite number of emptinesses (including the wisdoms that correspond to the twenty emptinesses) | |
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| The basis of emptiness | |
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| The manner of being empty | |
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| Nondual wisdom | |
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| The equipment of the ten bhumis | |
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| The nature of the bhumis, which are the remedies | |
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| The nature of the object of meditative equipoise | |
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| The nature of the obstacles to be relinquished | |
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| The knowledge of the path | |
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| The five causes of the knowledge of the path | |
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| The knowledge of the path of sravakas | |
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| What is to be known-the nature of the path of the sravakas | |
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| The phase of the path of the mahayana during which this knowledge is generated | |
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| The question of whether the path or the knowledge of the path is taught here | |
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| The knowledge of the path of pratyekabuddhas | |
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| The knowledge of the path of bodhisattvas | |
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| The supports in which it arises | |
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| What is to be generated-the path of seeing | |
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| The path of familiarization | |
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| The path of familiarization and its function in general | |
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| The path of familiarization as aspiration | |
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| The path of familiarization as dedication | |
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| The uncontaminated path of familiarization | |
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| The utterly pure path of familiarization | |
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| Removing qualms about the manner in which the stains are relinquished | |
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| The all-knowledge | |
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| The presentation of the objects of knowledge (skandhas, dhatus, and ayatanas) | |
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| The explanation of the five skandhas | |
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| The way in which they correspond to the dhatus and the ayatanas | |
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| The way in which they correspond to the four realities, the five bases, and so on | |
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| Sravakas and pratyekabuddhas do not realize phenomenal identitylessness | |
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| The three natures | |
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| How they are taught in the sutras | |
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| Explanation according to the scriptural system of Yogacara | |
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| Charts | |
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| The three realms of samsara and their subdivisions | |
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| The 108 repetitive phrases of the prajnaparamita sutras | |
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| The five paths | |
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| The sixteen aspects of the four realities of noble ones according to the Abhidharmakosabhasya, TOK, and the Abhidharmasamuccaya | |
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| The aspects of the four realities of the noble ones in the abhidharma and the prajnaparamita sutras | |
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| The kinds of samgha according to the Abhidharmakosa | |
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| The twenty-five kinds of bodhisattva samgha in the revised edition of the Prajnaparamitasutra in Twenty-five Thousand Lines and the twenty kinds of samgha in AA I.23-24 | |
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| The twenty kinds of samgha according to the Vrtti, the Aloka, the Vivrti, JNS, and CE | |
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| Comparison of the terminologies of the types of samgha in the revised edition of the Prajnaparamitasutra in Twenty-five Thousand Lines, the AA, and the Abhidharmakosa | |
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| The nine stages of settling the mind (calm abiding), the four flaws, and the eight remedies | |
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| General sets of samadhis | |
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| Specific sets of samadhis and qualities | |
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| The thirty-seven dharmas concordant with enlightenment and the five paths according to the Vaibhasikas | |
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| The common order of the thirty-seven dharmas concordant with enlightenment and their matching with the five paths (according to non-Vaibhasikas and the mahayana) | |
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| The factors to be relinquished through seeing and familiarization according to the sravakas | |
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| The way of relinquishment of the factors to be relinquished through seeing and familiarization on the eight levels of the sravakas | |
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| The factors to be relinquished through seeing and familiarization according to the mahayana (Abhidharmasamuccaya and Abhisamayalamkara) | |
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| Afflictive obscurations, cognitive obscurations, and obscurations of meditative absorption according to JNS | |
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| The sixteen moments of the wisdoms of readiness and cognition on the path of seeing according to the Abhidharmakosa, the Abhidharmasamuccaya, and Aryavimuktisena and Haribhadra as per JNS | |
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| The four remedies | |
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| The correspondences of skandhas, ayatanas, and dhatus | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |