Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real

Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real
Author: Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1997
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9788120806481

Lam rim Chen mo (roughly, "the great book on stages of the path to enlightenment") is the abbreviated title of a massive encyclopaedic manual written by Tson-kha-pa, the founder of the gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. 'Calming the mind and Discerning the Real' marks the first appearance in English of the two most important segments of this work.

An Evaluation of the Vedāntic Critique of Buddhism

An Evaluation of the Vedāntic Critique of Buddhism
Author: Gregory Joseph Darling
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1987
Genre: Buddhism
ISBN: 9788120803633

This book represents a comparison of the critique of Buddhism as set forth in the interpretations of Sankara, Madhva, and Ramanuja to the sutras of the second section (adhyaya) of the Brahma-sutras concerned with the refutation of Buddhism, with the positions actually elaborated by the Buddhists in their own texts. An attempt is also made to compare the conflicting interpretations of the three commentators to these particular sutras, in accordance with the philosophical approach unique to each commentator. The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of an Introductory Background. It includes a brief description of the Brahma-sutras as a text and summarizes the philosophical positions of the three commentators. The second part proceeds sutra by sutra to study the three commentators' interpretations of the particular sutras directed against the Buddhists.