The Buddha's Doctrine and the Nine Vehicles

Cabezón, José Ignacio [Übers.]:
The Buddha's Doctrine and the Nine Vehicles : Rog Bande Sherab's Lamp of the Teachings / José Ignacio Cabezón. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - ca. 320 S.
Einheitssachtitel des übers. Werks: Grub mtha' so so'i bźed tshul gzuṅ gsal bar ston pa chos 'byuṅ grub mtha' chen po bstan pa'i sgron me <engl.>
ISBN 978-0-19-995860-3
US$ 99,00 / £ 60,00 (Hardback)
ISBN 978-0-19-995862-7
US$ 35,00 / £ 18,99 (Paperback)
DDC: 294.342
-- OUP (USA): bereits erschienen, OUP (UK): angekündigt für Januar 2013 --

Beschreibung
Following the fall of the Tibetan empire and the ensuing "period of fragmentation," the twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw tremendous religious efflorescence in Tibet. Although the Tibetan scholars and adepts of this period continued to draw from the texts and practices of Indian Buddhism, they also began to craft distinctly Tibetan intellectual and spiritual traditions. Hundreds of important masters lived and worked during this time, some of whom founded institutions that still exist today. Equally important were the scholars who lived on the margins of institutionalized Buddhism, teachers and meditators whose works, despite their great creativity, have been largely forgotten.
   José Cabezón offers a study of the life and most important extant work of one such figure, Rog Bande Sherab [Śes rab 'od, Rog Bande], also known as Rogben (1166-1244). Rogben studied under some of the greatest teachers of his day. An itinerant scholar and yogi, he devoted his life to collecting important textual cycles and meditation techniques. Rogben's most important work, The Lamp of the Teachings, cuts across the genres of history, doctrinal studies, and doxography. It is one of the earliest philosophically robust explanations of the "nine vehicle" system of the Ancient or Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Buddha's Doctrine and the Nine Vehicles is the first scholarly study of Rog Bande Sherab, a pivotal figure in both the Pacification (Zhiché) and Ancient traditions of Tibet, and one of the most original thinkers in Tibetan intellectual history. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Introduction. 1
The Life of Rog Bande Sherab Ö. 39
A Lamp for the Teachings. 52
Part I: The Buddha and His Doctrine, What Is To Be Known
   1. Introduction. 55
   2. How the Buddha Was Enlightened. 61
   3. How the Dharma Was Taught and Compiled. 67
   4. The Categorization of the Dharma and the Dissemination of Tantra. 78
   5. Exoteric Scriptures and Treatises. 93
   6. The Esoteric Tradition. 106
   7. Types of Tantras and and their Ancillary Literature. 118
   8. The Differences Between Various Doctrinal Categories. 135
Part II: The Nine Vehicles, Knowing Agents
   9. Non-Buddhists. 163
   10. The Hīnayāna. 181
   11. The Mind Only School. 190
   12. The Madhyamaka. 199
   13. The Outer Tantras. 221
   14. The Inner Tantras. 227
Part III: The Nonduality of Knowledge and Known Things
   15. Nonduality and the Buddhist Path. 249
Appendix I: Teachings Rog bande Sherab Received. 257
Appendix II: The Relationship of Rog's Lamp to the Two Deu Histories. 267
Bibliography. 271
Index. 291

Übersetzer
José Ignacio Cabezón is XIVth Dalai Lama Professor of Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies, and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author, editor, or translator of a dozen books and numerous articles in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies and in the academic study of religion, most recently Tibetan Ritual (Oxford, 2010), and Meditation on the Nature of Mind (with His Holiness the Dalai Lama). Profile page.

Quellen: Oxford University Press (USA); Oxford University Press (UK); WorldCat; Amazon; Google Books; Library of Congress
Bildquelle: Oxford University Press (UK)
Bibliographie: [1]

References