PROFOUND REALITY OF INTERDEPENDENCE IBD

Sinopse

The Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the monk and scholar ?S=antideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva. Over one thousand years after ?S=antideva?s composition, K�,nzang S�,nam (1823-1905) produced the most extensive commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva ever written. This book is the first English translation of K�,nzang S�,nam?s overview of ?S=antideva?s notoriously difficult ninth chapter on wisdom. The ninth chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva is philosophically very rich but forbiddingly technical, and can only be read well with a good commentary. K�,nzang S�,nam?s commentary offers a unique and complete introduction to the view of Pr=asa: ngika-Madhyamaka, the summit of Buddhist philosophy in Tibet, as articulated by Tsongkhapa. It brings ?S=antideva?s text, and Tsongkhapa?s interpretation of Pr=asa: ngika-Madhyamaka, into conversation with a vast Buddhist literature from India and Tibet. By articulating the integral relationship between emptiness and interdependence, this text formulates a sustained and powerful argument for emptiness as a metaphysical basis of bodhisattva ethics. This volume makes the ninth chapter accessible to English-speaking teachers and students of the Way of the Bodhisattva.