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Explore the Mulamadhyamakakarika the way the Dalai Lama teaches it. Nagarjuna's Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, or as it's known in Tibetan, Root Wisdom, is a definitive presentation of the doctrines of emptiness and dependent arising, and a foundational text of Mahayana Buddhism. In this book, Barry Kerzin, personal physician to the Dalai Lama, presents this fundamental work in a digestible way, using a method favored by His Holiness: focusing on five key chapters, presented in a specific order. • First we explore the twelve links of dependent origination, in Nagarjuna's chapter 26, to learn why and how we cycle through sa?sara. • Then we examine the self that cycles to discover that, in fact, there is no inherently existent self, based on Nagarjuna's chapter 18. • We then enter an analysis of the four noble truths, based on chapter 24, to understand how conventional reality is understood. • Next, an investigation of the Tathagata shows the reader that even emptiness is empty in chapter 22. • Finally, Nagarjuna re-emphasizes the pervasiveness of emptiness in his first chapter. Thus, Dr. Kerzin walks us through Nagarjuna's masterwork and lets the great teacher introduce us to

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Author
Barry Kerzin
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781614295198
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Buddhism, Religion

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