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The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice - Vasubhandu's Summary of the Five Heaps with Commentary by Sthiramati (Hardcover)
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The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice - Vasubhandu's Summary of the Five Heaps with Commentary by Sthiramati (Hardcover)
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The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice contains translations of
texts by two historically important Indian buddhist scholars:
Vasubhandhu's Summary of the Five Heaps and Sthiramati's commentary
on Vasubandhu's root text. These works present the traditional
Buddhist analysis of ordinary experience and provide rich resources
for studying Buddhist and Western interpretations of the psychology
of spiritual development. According to Buddhist doctrine, the mind
of an ordinary person, even at birth, holds deeply ingrained
predispositions that lead us to perceive the elements of everyday
experience mistakenly and to believe, for instance, that entities
persist through time, that the pleasures we pursue are genuinely
satisfying, that our own personal being is governed by a real self,
and that all physical and mental phenomena have a distinct,
independent, and real essence. Our everyday language only serves to
reinforce and deepen these erring notions. Buddhist teaching
reveals how to reject these flawed beliefs and replace them with a
model that both more accurately represents our experience and is
indispensable to the realizations that will free us from cyclic
existence. The ability to accomplish this rests largely with
learning the unique vocabulary and explanations found in Buddhist
literature, since that is how we will discover what is mistaken
about our untutored beliefs and where we will gain the intellectual
skills that are needed to construct a new and more refined
conceptual infrastructure. Engle's introduction explores how the
material contained in the two translations can specifically improve
practice of the Tibetan teaching system known as Lamrim, or "Stages
of the Path." Each of the levels of motivation described by the
Lamrim teachings is examined in light of the doctrine of the five
heaps form, feeling, conception, formations, and consciousness to
show how greater understanding of the classical Buddhist doctrines
can enhance practice of that portion of the instruction.
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