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cover cover next page > title: Buddhahood Embodied : Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies author: Makransky, John J. publisher: State University of New York Press isbn10 | asin: 079143432X print isbn13: 9780791434321 ebook isbn13: 9780585088716 language: English subject Abhisamayalankara--Criticism, interperetation, etc, Buddhahood. publication date: 1997 lcc: BQ1955.A83M33 1997eb ddc: 294.3/85 subject: Abhisamayalankara--Criticism, interperetation, etc, Buddhahood. cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/start_here.html[11.07.2010 16:34:54] page_i < previous page page_i next page > Page i Buddhahood Embodied < previous page page_i next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_i.html[11.07.2010 16:34:55] cover cover next page > title: Buddhahood Embodied : Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies author: Makransky, John J. publisher: State University of New York Press isbn10 | asin: 079143432X print isbn13: 9780791434321 ebook isbn13: 9780585088716 language: English subject Abhisamayalankara--Criticism, interperetation, etc, Buddhahood. publication date: 1997 lcc: BQ1955.A83M33 1997eb ddc: 294.3/85 subject: Abhisamayalankara--Criticism, interperetation, etc, Buddhahood. cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/cover.html[11.07.2010 16:34:55] page_ii < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies Matthew Kapstein, Editor < previous page page_ii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_ii.html[11.07.2010 16:34:56] page_iii < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Buddhahood Embodied Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet John J. Makransky State University of New York Press < previous page page_iii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_iii.html[11.07.2010 16:34:56] page_iv < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Quotations in Chapter 13 are taken from A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras, edited by Garma C. C. 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For information, address the State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 Production by Bernadine Dawes • Marketing by Hanna J. Hazen Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Makransky, John J. Buddhahood embodied : sources of controversy in India and Tibet / John J. Makransky. p. cm. (SUNY series in Buddhist studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3431-1 (hc : acid free). ISBN 0-7914-3432-X (pb : acid free) 1. Abhisamayalankara Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Buddhahood. I. Title. II. Series. BQ1955.A83M33 1997 294.3'85dc21 97-2682 CIP < previous page page_iv next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_iv.html[11.07.2010 16:34:56] page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v This book is dedicated to Barbara Rogers Makransky, my wife, who has blessed the life behind it < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_v.html[11.07.2010 16:34:57] page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii Contents Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Abbreviations xix Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1 1.1 Basic Questions 3 1.2 Long Controversy over the Abhisamayalamkara on Buddahood 7 1.3 Historical and Textual Issues behind the Controversy 9 1.4 Philosophical and Theological Concerns behind the Controversy 17 1.5 Wider Implications for the History of Mahayana Thought Chapter 2: The Buddha's Body of Dharmas (Dharmakaya) in Sarvastivada Abhidharma 23 Chapter 3: The Buddhas' Embodiment of Dharma(ta) (Dharmakaya) in Prajñaparamita Sutras 29 Chapter 4: Embodiment of Buddhahood in its Own Realization: Yogacara Svabhavikakaya as Projection of Praxis and Gnoseology 39 39 4.1 Relevance of Yogacara texts to Abhisamayalamkara Chapter 8 41 4.2 Defining Principle of Buddhahood in Classical Yogacara: Dharmakaya as Realization of Thusness, not Buddha Dharmas per se < previous page page_vii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_vii.html[11.07.2010 16:34:57] page_viii < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii 50 4.3 Yogacara Sixfold Analysis of Buddhahood: "Essence" (Svabhava) Corresponds to Svabhavikakaya 54 4.4 Meanings Implicit in Kaya Name Morphologies: Embodiment of Buddhahood in its Essence (Svabhavika), in its Communal Enjoyment of Dharma (Sambhogika), in its Manifestations (Nairmanika) 60 4.5 Two Meanings of Dharmakaya in Yogacara, with the Term Svabhavikakaya Mediating between Them 62 4.6 Svabhavikakaya as a Direct Extrapolation from Yogacara Meditational Praxis and Gnoseology 83 4.7 Summary Chapter 5: Enlightenment's Paradox: Nondual Awareness of the Unconditioned (Svabhavikakaya)Embodied in Conditioned Activity for Beings (Sambhogikakaya, Nairmanikakaya) 85 85 5.1 Buddhahood as Nonabiding Nirvana (Apratisthita Nirvana) 87 5.2 Svabhavikakaya as Ontological Foundation of the Rupakayas, Epistemologically Exclusive to Buddhas 90 5.3 The Paradox of Buddhahood as Nonabiding Nirvana: Unconditioned Basis of Pervasive Activity in a Conditioned World 97 5.4 Paradox of a Buddha's Awareness: Inseparable from Unconditioned Thusness, yet Operative in the Conditioned World 104 5.5 Sambhogikakaya as Embodiment in Communal Enjoyment, Nairmanikakaya as Manifold Manifestations for Limitless Activity Chapter 6: The Abhisamayalamkara and its Eighth Chapter on Buddhahood 109 Chapter 7: Literary-Critical Analysis of Abhisamayalamkara, Chapter 8: A Map that Projects the Three Kayas of Yogacara onto the Large Prajñaparamita Sutra · 127 127 file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_viii.html[11.07.2010 16:34:57] page_viii 7.1 Introduction 128 7.2 Abhisamayalamkara Chapter 8's Textual Basis in the 25,000-verse Prajñaparamita Sutra 128 a. Late Indian and Tibetan commentators identify rP Passages 8.1-8.3 as the textual basis of AA chapter 8's teaching on the Buddha Kaya b. Evidence that rP passages 8.1-8.3 were composed after the < previous page page_viii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_viii.html[11.07.2010 16:34:57] page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix 138 Abhisamayalamkara and thus could not have been the textual basis for Abhisamayalamkara Chapter 8 138 1. rP passages 8.1-8.3 are missing in all Chinese translations of the 25,000- verse Prajñaparamita sutra 140 2. rP passages 8.1-8.3 are missing in all Prajñaparamita sutras extant in Sanskrit and Tibetan except rP 141 3. rP passages 8.1-8.3 were not part of the Prajñaparamitasutra in Arya Vimuktisena's time 146 4. Large Prajñaparamita Sutra passages 8.4-8.5 were the actual textual basis for Abhisamayalamkara chapter 8 147 5. Textual history of rP, and evidence that Haribhadra was its redactor 151 6. Terms and concepts in Abhisamayalamkara chapter 8 not found in Prajñaparamita passages 8.4-8.5 153 7.3 Conclusion: Abhisamayalamkara Chapter 8 as a Yogacara-Prajñaparamita Mapping Chapter 8: Internal Evidence that Abhisamayalamkara Chapter 8 Teaches the Three Yogacara Kayas 159 159 8.1 Introduction: Prajñaparamia and Yogacara Patterns of Thought Relevant to Analysis of Abhisamayalamkara Chapter 8 163 8.2 Abhisamayalamkara Chapter 8's Table of Contents: AA verse 1.17 170 8.3 Svabhavikakaya/dharmakaya: Abhisamayalamkara verses 8.1-8.6 175 8.4 Abhisamayalamkara verses 8.7-8.11 176 8.5 Sambhogikakaya: Abhisamayalamkara verses 8.12-8.32 file:///I|/-=Bud/Makransky%20-%20Buddhahood%20Embodied/files/page_ix.html[11.07.2010 16:34:58] page_ix 179 8.6 Nairmanikakaya and its Activity: Abhisamayalamkara verses 8.33-8.40 185 8.7 Conclusion Chapter 9: Arya Vimuktisena on Gnoseology and Buddhology in the Abhisamayalamkara 187 187 9.1 Introduction 188 9.2 Correspondence between Arya Vimuktisena's Gnoseology and the Svabhavikakaya