Name: Realizing the Profound View
SKU: 54321357
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Author: Dalai Lama
ISBN: 9781614298403

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dalai Lama

Publisher

Wisdom Publications

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6x16.3x5.6 cm

Weight

0.84 kg.

ISBN13

9781614298403

Synopsis "Realizing the Profound View"

The eighth volume in the Dalai Lama's definitive and bestselling Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, and the second of three focusing on emptiness. In Realizing the Profound View the Dalai Lama presents the analysis and meditations necessary to realize the ultimate nature of reality. With attention to Nagarjuna's five-point analysis, Candrakirti's seven-point examination, and Pali sutras, the Dalai Lama leads us to investigate who or what is the person. Are we our body? Our mind? If we are not inherently either of them, how do we exist, and what carries the karma from one life to the next? As we explore these and other fascinating questions, he skillfully guides us along the path, avoiding the chasms of absolutism and nihilism, and introduces us to dependent arising. We find that although all persons and phenomena lack an inherent essence, they do exist dependently. This nominally imputed mere I carries the karmic seeds. We discover that all phenomena exist by being merely designated by term and concept--they appear as like illusions, unfindable under ultimate analysis but functioning on the conventional level. Furthermore, we come to understand that emptiness dawns as the meaning of dependent arising, and dependent arising dawns as the meaning of emptiness. The ability to posit subtle dependent arisings in the face of realizing emptiness and to establish ultimate and conventional truths as non-contradictory brings us to the culmination of the correct view. The second of three volumes on the nature of reality in the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, Realizing the Profound View challenges the ways we view the self and the world, bringing us that much closer to liberation.

Dalai Lama

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The Dalai Lama is the title given to the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
The current one, Tenzin Gyatso, was born on July 6, 1935 in Taktser, Tibet.
In 1959, after the failed Tibetan rebellion against Chinese rule, he went into exile in
India.
He has worked tirelessly for world peace and Tibetan autonomy, which
earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He is the author of numerous books
on spirituality and Buddhist philosophy.

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