Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s Great Exposition of Tenets with Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s Annotations: Introduction to the Middle Way School
Jeffrey Hopkins
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What is the definition of “Middle”? The etymology? What is Nāgārjuna’s history over lives? How did the divisions of the Middle Way School, the Autonomy School and the Consequence School, diverge?
The format of the translation has six basic components:
- Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s running outline from his Great Exposition of Tenets
- His Root Text of Tenets: Lion’s Roar
- An indented word-commentary from the Khalkha Mongolian Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s Annotations for the “Great Exposition of Tenets”: Freeing the Knots of the Difficult Points, Precious Jewel of Clear Awareness
- Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s own commentary Explanation of Tenets: Sun of the Land of Samantabhadra Brilliantly Illuminating All of Our Own and Others’ Tenets and the Meaning of the Profound [Emptiness], Ocean of Scripture and Reasoning Fulfilling All Hopes of All Beings, also known as the Great Exposition of Tenets
- Remarks indented from Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s Annotations for (Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s) “Great Exposition of Tenets”
- Occasional, other indented explanatory materials. This presentation contains all Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s root text and commentary as well as all Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s clarifying word-commentary and enlivening observations.