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  • Compassion: A Tibetan Analysis, a Buddhist Monastic

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    Description:  This translated section from A Good Explanation Adorning the Throats of the Fortunate: A General Meaning Commentary Clarifying Difficult Points in (Dzong-ka-ba’s) "Illumination of the Thought: An Explanation of (Chandrakirti’s) ‘Supplement to (Ndgarjuna’s) “Treatise on the Middle Way’” ” by Jay-dzun Cho-gyi-gyel-tsen (rjebtsun Chos-kyi-rgyal-mtshan) (1469-1546) is important because it brings to light the continuity of theoretical concern for issues other than emptiness (shunyata, stong pa nyid) among the Madhyamika philosophers of India and Tibet. Most modern studies of Madhyamika focus on the problem of interpreting the concept of emptiness.

    In large part this is because Nagarjuna (second century A.D.) devoted his most influential work, Treatise on the Middle Way, primarily to the explication of emptiness and related concepts. Because it strikes them as strangely familiar, emptiness often fascinates those trained in the skeptical ontologies of contemporary philosophy. Consider the following: “Mind and matter alike, I should say, are only convenient symbols in discourse, not actually existing things.”1 Bertrand Russell made this statement, but a Madhyamika thinker might easily have chosen the same words to express his view. Such resonances, together with the shared method of persistent logical analysis, point to common ground between modem philosophy and Madhyamika.
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