The Middle Way
This important work handsomely repays the close reading required to fully savor the text.
Book Description
Ocean of Nectar is the first complete explanation in English of Chandrakirti's Guide to the Middle Way, a classic Mahayana scripture, which to this day is regarded as the principal presentation of Buddha’s profound view of emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality. With a new translation and verse-by-verse commentary, the author reveals this profound meaning to the West with utmost clarity, and guides us along the stages of the Bodhisattva path to full enlightenment. This book is an indispensable guide for the serious practitioner of Mahayana Buddhism.
About the Author
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s 19 highly acclaimed books have sold half-a-million copies. He was born in Tibet and is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism. Resident in the West since 1977, he has founded over 600 Kadampa Meditation Centers and Groups throughout the world.
Ocean of Nectar: Wisdom and Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism FROM THE PUBLISHER
Ocean of Nectar is the first complete commentary in English to Chandrakirti's classic Guide to the Middle Way, one of the most important scriptures in Mahayana Buddhism and regarded to this day as the principal text on emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality. In this long-awaited major work Geshe Kelsang provides an entirely new translation of Chandrakirti's verse masterpiece and explains with outstanding clarity the philosophical reasoning establishing Buddha's most profound view of the middle way. In the course of the book he also charts the progress of a Mahayana practitioner from the initial cultivation of compassion through to the attainment of full enlightenment, providing an indispensable guide for the serious student of Mahayana Buddhism.
FROM THE CRITICS
John Powers - Journal of Buddhist Ethics
...[It provides] a wealth of information concerning the dGe lugs pa interpretation of Candrakiirti and Naagaarjuna....This reading of Madhyamaka is at odds with much of current Western scholarship, but it represents a commentarial tradition with a high degree of internal consistency that deserves to be evaluated on its own merits, rather than being uncritically rejected, as it all too often is by Buddhologists.
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