Foreword by Dzogchen Ponlop .................................... ix
Preface ........................................................ xi
Notes about Translated Material .............................. xvii
l. Ropes and Snakes ............................................ 3
2. Making the Journey ......................................... 16
3. Starting to Contemplate .................................... 27
4. Selflessness 101 ........................................... 32
5. Vaibhashika: Taking Things Apart ........................... 41
6. Sautrantika: What Really Comes to Mind? A Poetic
Interlude .................................................. 63
7. Mahayana 101 ............................................... 67
8. Chittamatra: There Is Only Mind ............................ 82
9. Three Natures .............................................. 97
10. The Middle ................................................ 107
Another Interlude ......................................... 116
11. Svatantrikas and Prasangikas .............................. 119
12. Great Reasonings of the Middle Way ........................ 128
13. No Arising ................................................ 136
14. Further Reasonings ........................................ 146
15. The Analysis of the Automobile ............................ 155
16. Shentong Madhyamaka ....................................... 168
Last Interlude ............................................ 181
17. Meditation ................................................ 183
18. Action .................................................... 191
Conclusion .................................................... 199
Acknowledgments ............................................... 203
Appendix 1. Biographical Sketches of the Early Indian
Masters ........................................... 207
Appendix 2. The Stages of Meditation on Emptiness ............. 219
Notes ......................................................... 221
Bibliography .................................................. 229
Resources ..................................................... 233
Index ......................................................... 235
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