{"product_id":"mipham-dialectics-and-the-debates-on-emptiness-pdf","title":"Mipham Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness (PDF)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e“This book explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eEmptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eIt examines the critique by the leading Nyingma school philosopher Miphamm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e(1846–1912), one of Tibet’s brightest and most versatile minds, formulated in hism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ediverse writings. The book focuses on related issues such as what is negated by the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003edoctrine of Emptiness, the nature of ultimate reality and the difference between \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e‘extrinsic’ and ‘intrinsic’ emptiness. These issues continue to be the subject of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003elively debate among contemporary exponents of Tibetan Buddhist thought.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eKarma Phuntsho’s book aptly undertakes a thematic and selective discussion of these \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003edebates and Mipham’s qualms about the Gelukpa understanding of Emptiness in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ea mixture of narrative and analytic styles. For the first time, a major understanding \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eof Emptiness, variant to the Gelukpa interpretation that has become dominant in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eboth Tibet and the West, is revealed.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45029779996808,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/MiphamDialecticsandtheDebatesonEmptiness2copy.png?v=1776185744","url":"https:\/\/namobuddhapublications.org\/products\/mipham-dialectics-and-the-debates-on-emptiness-pdf","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}