Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya Chapters 1 to 5, critically and diplomatically edited
on the basis of preparatory work by Helmut Krasser (†)
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Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya Chapters 1 to 5, critically and diplomatically edited
on the basis of preparatory work by Helmut Krasser (†)
ISBN 978-3-7001-8700-4 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8959-6 Online Edition Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region 22 doi:10.1553/978OEAW87004
2022 Diese Publikation ist lizenziert unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz Namensnennung 4.0: CC BY 4.0 € 59,--
Horst LASIC
is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Xuezhu LI is a Researcher at the China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing Anne MCDONALD is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences doi:10.1553/978OEAW87004 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Published Online: 2022/05/02 14:33:34 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5572 0x003d6383 Rights: . This book contains a critical Sanskrit edition of the first five chapters of a work that presents the steps of the path to full Awakening according to the “Great Vehicle” of Buddhism. The author of the work, the Indian scholar Candrakīrti (circa A.D. 570–650), is one of the most important representatives of the Madhyamaka, the “Middle Way” school. A central theme of the tradition is the emptiness or lack of reality of all things and beings. Those aspiring to achieve Awakening, the bodhisattvas, dedicate themselves to cultivating insight into emptiness and realizing the ultimate state of things, as well as to perfecting the practice of a group of ethical and spiritually oriented qualities, such as generosity and patience, for the sake of attaining Buddhahood. Unlike the followers of the so-called “Lesser Vehicle” the bodhisattvas vow, due to their deep compassion, to postpone entering Nirvana until they reach Buddhahood, since it is the attainment of Buddhahood that endows them with the power to comprehensively help sentient beings.
Until now, these first five chapters of the Madhyamakavatarabhasya were available to scholars only in their Tibetan translation. The textual edition presented here is based on the sole extant, and only recently available, Sanskrit manuscript of the work, which had been preserved for centuries in Tibet. The new access to the text in its original language not only facilitates a better understanding of Candrakīrti’s philosophical views and his stance on topics relevant to liberation but allows for deeper appreciation of his contribution to an important phase of Indian Buddhism.
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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3420, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400 https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at, e-mail: verlag@oeaw.ac.at |