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Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet (S U N Y Series in Buddhist Studies) Paperback - 1997
by Makransky, John J
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- Title Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet (S U N Y Series in Buddhist Studies)
- Author Makransky, John J
- Binding Paperback
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 494
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher State University of New York Press
- Date 1997-07-30
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # BRG-25_6_403
- ISBN 9780791434321 / 079143432X
- Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 9.03 x 5.94 x 1.11 in (22.94 x 15.09 x 2.82 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress subjects Buddhahood
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-2682
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.385
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From the rear cover
To enter the Mahayana Buddhist path to enlightenment is to seek both to become free from our dualistic, deluded world and to remain actively engaged in that world until all others are free. How are these two apparently contradictory qualities to be embodied in the attainment of buddhahood (dharmakaya)? How can one's present practice accomplish that? These questions underlie a millennium-old controversy over buddhahood in India and Tibet that centers around a cherished text, the Abhisamayalamkara. Makransky shows how the Abhisamayalamkara's composite redaction, from Abhidharma, Prajnaparamita, and Yogacara traditions, permitted its interpreters to perceive different aspects of those traditions as central in its teaching of buddhahood. This enabled Indians and Tibetans to read very different perspectives on enlightenment into the Abhisamayalamkara, through which they responded to the questions in startlingly different ways. The author shows how these perspectives provide alternative ways to resolve a logical tension at the heart of Mahayana thought, inscribed in the doctrine that buddhahood paradoxically transcends and engages our worlds simultaneously.