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How Are Hearers and Solitary Realizers Born From Buddhas?: Jam-yang-shay-pa's Great Exposition of the Middle 2 by Jules Levinson. May, 2017

This second volume examines two questions: How do Buddhas give birth to Hearers and Solitary Victors, and how are Buddhas born from Bodhisattvas? The book includes a translation of the Mongolian scholar Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s word commentary on the corresponding portions of Chandrakīrti’s Supplement to (Nāgārjuna’s) “Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Called ‘Wisdom’” as well as a translation of the same sections of Tsong-kha-pa’s ground-breaking Illumination of the Thought.