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This article focuses on a specific iconography of the dGe lugs pa school. This iconography is known by the name of tshogs zhing (a spiritual field for the accumulation of merits), here analyzed in its 18 th century form. The images... more
I'm a filmmaker. I am not a scholar. I am not an academic. I am an author of a number of books about what people say under deep hypnosis about the afterlife, and recently what they say without hypnosis on the same topic. My interest in... more
Una breve instrucción sobre los puntos esenciales de los dos estados de la práctica de la deidad, el de generación y completamiento, en el anuttara tantra.
Un tratado en el que, basándose en el Capítulo sobre la moralidad ética, de Niveles del bodhisatva, de Asanga, Tsong Khapa analiza en detalle la naturaleza y características de los votos de la liberación individual y del bodhisatva, en el... more
The Meaning of rigs shes in the Geluk Tradition A rational consciousness is a crucial concept that can explain Tsongkhapa's and the Geluk Tradition's path to enlightenment. There are two types of rational consciousness: a conceptual and a... more
This chapter focuses on methods to counter anger according to Tsong-kha-pa, a fifteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar and founding figure of the Gelukpa (dge lugs pa) tradition. After briefly introducing the figure of Tsong-kha-pa, we... more
... GHA 221 this point one has gathered a rough understanding of the essencelessness of things and begun the unified path of calm abiding and special insight (samathavipasyanŻayuganaddha). The bodhisattva is ready to enter into the... more
This paper investigates old dGa’-ldan and Gong-dkar-ba xylographic editions that date to the 15th century. The Gong dkar ba edition was the earliest block-print edition of Sa skya pa writings in Central Tibet, and it was sponsored by Gong... more
This paper will compare two fourteenth century philosophical systems that describe Buddhist theories on creation: the graded path of the Middle Way and aspects of its subsequent system of Highest Yoga Tantra according to Je Tsongkhapa,... more
A translation of the chapter on the object of negation in the Svātantrika-Mādhyamika from Jamyang Shaypa's Great Exposition of the Middle Way (dbu ma mtha' dpyod)
An overlooked aspect in the study of Tibetan Buddhism is the Gelukpa (dge lugs pa) understanding of Tuṣita Heaven as a pure land (dag pa’i zhing khams). Ever since Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa (Tsong kha pa blo gzang grags pa, 1357–1419)... more
Study of the Twenty Saṃghas in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism published in 2003. A full monograph on the topic is published in Stairway to Nirvāṇa: A Study of the Twenty Saṃghas Based on the Works of Tsong kha pa (SUNY, 2008) [... more
Una obra corta en la que Lama Tsong Khapa resume los tipos de votos de la liberación individual, tanto de laicos como de monjes plenamente ordenados.
This paper will look at Kant's views of the aesthetic experience, in relationship to Buddhist philosophical and political discussions of art and social organization. The primary focus in Kantian literature explores the relationship... more
A Stairway taken by the Lucid presents for the first time an annotated English translation accompanied with a Tibetan critical edition of Tsong kha pa's commentary on the different types of Noble Beings (Skt. arya, Tib.'phags pa) that... more
After being engendered through the appropriating activity (upadana) of the mind (manas), applied to the universal experience of the storehouse consciousness (alayavijnana), the individual experience is constituted through the conjoint... more
This paper couples together a hermeneutic understanding of the beautiful with the Buddhist idea of radiant beings in order to understand something of an ordinary and frequent classroom experience.
Un breve comentario a las dos verdades, desde la visión del Madhyamaka, o Camino del medio.
James B. Apple examines one of the formative subjects in traditional Buddhist studies, the Twenty Varieties of the Saṃgha. The Saṃgha (community) is one of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Saṃgha) universally revered by all Buddhists.... more
Introduction and Table of Contents to:
Jardine, D. (2016). In Praise of Radiant Beings: A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology. Charlotte NC: Information Age Publishing.
Jardine, D. (2016). In Praise of Radiant Beings: A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology. Charlotte NC: Information Age Publishing.
An experimental analysis of Tsong kha pa's inquiries into truth and phenomena is explored. To develop open divine theories of emptiness, a key issue for Tsong kha pa is how to treat the two modes of propositions as an integration of all... more
The contents, antecedents and influence of Tsong-kha-pa’a Lam rim chen mo. In: J.Cutler et al. (ed.), The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Tsong-kha-pa (Ithaca, 2000), pp. 17-32 + Notes.
This article focuses on a specific iconography of the dGe lugs pa school. This iconography is known by the name of tshogs zhing (a spiritual field for the accumulation of merits), here analyzed in its 18 th century form.
Preamble 17 from Jardine, D. (2016). In Praise of Radiant Beings: A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology. Charlotte NC: Information Age Publishing.
Book Cover In Praise of Radiant Beings
(This is a draft preamble to Chapter Sixteen of the forthcoming book: Jardine, D. [in press]. In Praise of Radiant Beings: A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology. Charlotte NC: Information Age Publishing.)
This is a draft preamble to Chapter Eighteen of the forthcoming book:
Jardine, D. (in press). In Praise of Radiant Beings: A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology. Charlotte NC: Information Age Publishing.
Jardine, D. (in press). In Praise of Radiant Beings: A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology. Charlotte NC: Information Age Publishing.