The Adornment of the Middle Way, Part 1
Shantarakshita was the main proponent of the Yogachara Madhyamaka syntheses and one of the first two main transmitters of Buddhism from India to Tibet - the other being Padmasambhava. The Madhyamakalankara represents the middle way view of emptiness based entirely upon the logic of things being neither one nor many, and therefore not being validly established ultimately. We will study this relatively short text in detail using the Padmakara Translation Committee translation which includes a wonderful commentary by Mipham Rinpoche, supplemented by selected recent analyses.
Core Materials
Supplemental Materials
- A Controversial Topic from Mipham’s Analysis of Madhyamakalankara
- Later Madhyamika’s Epistemology and Meditation
- The “Neither One Nor Many” Argument for Shunyata
- Shantarakshita’s “Neither-One-Nor-Many” Argument
- Shantarakshita from Indian Buddhist Pandits
- Was Shantarakshita a “Positivist”?
- Vipashyana Cheatsheet
- "Comments on Self-Awareness" by Raziel Abelson
- "Reflexive Awareness and the Cogito" by Paul Bernier
- "What’s at Stake in a Tibetan Debate?" by Jay Garfield
- Sixteen Moments of the Path of Seeing
- The Seventy-Five Dharmas
- The One-Hundred Dharmas
- "Outlines of Sautrantika" by Konchok Jigmey Wangpo
- Tenets Handouts
- The Five Reasons in Syllogisms from The Treasury of Knowledge
- Class 7 Outline
- Class 8 Outline