Discover a clear and accessible translation with commentary on key parts of Khedrup Jé's Clearing Mental Darkness.
Composed at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this translation with commentary on key parts of Khedrup Jé's Clearing Mental Darkness: An Ornament of Dharmakirti's "Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition" is intended for all levels of understanding. You'll learn how a mind realizes its object, which types of consciousness realize their objects, and when a consciousness is considered to be valid in the sense of realizing its object. Having explained valid cognizers, or direct perceivers, which are essential to understanding the four noble truths, Khedrup Jé goes on to brilliantly elucidate this essential teaching of the Buddha and offers a lucid presentation of how to progress on the spiritual paths of liberation and enlightenment, including how to generate yogic perception directly realizing selflessness. With this, one develops an unmistaken realization of the fundamental reality of selflessness of persons and phenomena, which eliminates ignorance, the root cause of all mental afflictions and samsaric suffering.
Discover a clear and accessible translation with commentary on key parts of Khedrup Jé's Clearing Mental Darkness.
Composed at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this translation with commentary on key parts of Khedrup Jé's Clearing Mental Darkness: An Ornament of Dharmakirti's "Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition" is intended for all levels of understanding. You'll learn how a mind realizes its object, which types of consciousness realize their objects, and when a consciousness is considered to be valid in the sense of realizing its object. Having explained valid cognizers, or direct perceivers, which are essential to understanding the four noble truths, Khedrup Jé goes on to brilliantly elucidate this essential teaching of the Buddha and offers a lucid presentation of how to progress on the spiritual paths of liberation and enlightenment, including how to generate yogic perception directly realizing selflessness. With this, one develops an unmistaken realization of the fundamental reality of selflessness of persons and phenomena, which eliminates ignorance, the root cause of all mental afflictions and samsaric suffering.
"Freedom through Correct Knowing presents the core part of Khedrup
Jé's Clearing Mental Darkness, which is famed for its clear and
comprehensive analysis of key issues of importance for Buddhist
epistemology. Through this book the reader can join Khedrup Jé's
brilliant mind as he engages with important questions of logic and
epistemology via a dialogical format that powerfully guides the
reader."--Thupten Jinpa, founder, Institute of Tibetan Classics;
founder, Compassion Institute; translator of major Tibetan works in
The Library of Tibetan Classics and author of Tsongkhapa: A Buddha
in the Land of Snows
"In accordance with the extensive deeds and esteemed wishes of His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Sera Jey Translation Department has
taken great care to translate this text on valid cognition with the
aim of bringing about vast benefit to all both now and in the long
term. I congratulate them. The ability to easily induce
consciousnesses ascertaining emptiness and all the other points of
inner science belonging to sutra and tantra depends on the path of
the science of valid cognition or reasoning. Having read this
translation and commentary on Khedrup Jé's Clearing Mental
Darkness, those who understand the meaning should familiarize their
minds with and meditate on it again and again, thereby making
meaningful their lives that are endowed with leisure and
opportunity."--The 104th Gaden Tripa Kyabjé Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin
Palsangpo
"In the present so-called post-truth era, where misinformation
abounds, it is crucial to be able to differentiate between fact and
fiction and between valid and invalid ways of knowing something.
Freedom through Correct Knowing provides the Buddhist analytical
tools needed for this task, as interpreted by two of the greatest
Tibetan Gelugpa scholars, Khedrup Jé and his commentator Purbu
Chok. To open up the meaning of the technical language of the text,
the editors have interspersed clear explanations and have added
generous appendices with background material. The translators and
editors are to be congratulated on this beautifully written,
welcome contribution to our understanding of how the mind
works."--Dr. Alexander Berzin, founder, studybuddhism.com, a
project of the Berzin Archives
"The skill with which Mahayana practitioners exercise vigilance
over their superimposing false knowledge upon the world derives
from their study of prama¯n?a theory. Here we have a penetrating
digest of the central aspects of these classical investigations
into knowing. Correct Knowing is eloquent both by the standards of
traditional Tibetan inquiry and by maintaining a flowing, clear,
contemporary English prose that renders this journey through
Buddhist epistemology accessible to the reader."--Kenneth Liberman,
professor emeritus, University of Oregon
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