Sublime Continuum and Its Explanatory Commentary: With the Sublime Continuum Supercommentary - Revised Edition

Jiang, Bo trans

ISBN 10: 1949163245 / ISBN 13: 9781949163247

Published by Wisdom Publications, 2023

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624pp. Yellow paper with gilt-stamped lettering to front cover and spine. A clean, crisp copy. DJ has some light wear to front flap but otherwise crisp and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sublime Continuum and Its Explanatory Commentary: With the Sublime Continuum Supercommentary - Revised Edition
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949163245
• ISBN 13: 9781949163247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE
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Synopsis

Explore an in-depth explanation of buddha nature and self-emptiness.

The original Sublime Continuum Explanatory Commentary was written by Noble Asanga to explain the verses received from the bodhisattva Maitreya in the late fourth century CE in northern India. Here it is introduced and presented in an original translation from Sanskrit and Tibetan, with the translation of an extensive Tibetan Supercommentary by Gyaltsap Darma Rinchen (1364–1432), whose work closely followed the view of his teacher, Tsong Khapa (1357–1419).

Contemporary scholars have widely misunderstood the Buddhist Centrist (Madhyamaka) teaching of emptiness, or selflessness, as either a form of nihilism or a radical skepticism. Yet Buddhist philosophers from Nagarjuna on have shown that the negation of intrinsic reality, when accurately understood, affirms the supreme value of relative realities. Gyaltsap Darma Rinchen, in his Supercommentary, elucidates a highly positive theory of the buddha nature, showing how the wisdom of emptiness empowers the compassionate life of the enlightened, as it is touched by its oneness with the truth body of all buddhas. With his clear study of Gyaltsap’s insight and his original English translation, Bo Jiang completes his historic project of studying and presenting these works from Sanskrit and Tibetan in both Chinese and, now, English translations, in linked publications.

About the Author

Bo Jiang is a research fellow at the American Institute of Buddhist Studies at the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies. He is among the foremost translators from Sanskrit and Tibetan into modern Chinese.