Luminous Heart

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*259  Thrangu Rinpoche 1990, 2–7.
*259  Thrangu Rinpoche 1990, 2–7.
*260  Thrangu Rinpoche 2002, 20–51.
*260  Thrangu Rinpoche 2002, 20–51.
==Abbreviations==
AC - Rangjung Dorje's autocommentary on his Profound Inner Reality
AS - Asiatische Studien
D - Derge Tibetan Tripiṭaka
DSC - Rangjung Dorje's commentary on the Dharmadhātustava
J - Johnston's Sanskrit edition of the Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā
JAOS - Journal of the American Oriental Society
JIABS - Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
JIBS - Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyōgakku Kenkyū)
JIP - Journal of Indian Philosophy
JNS - Mikyö Dorje's commentary on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra
LTWA - Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
MM - Rangjung Dorje’s Aspiration Prayer of Mahāmudrā
NT - Rangjung Dorje's Treatise on Pointing Out the Tathāgata Heart
NTC - Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé's commentary on NT
NTKD - Kakyab Dorje's commentary on NT
NTKY - Göncho Yenla's annotations to NT
NY - Rangjung Dorje's Treatise on the Distinction between Consciousness and Wisdom
NYC - Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé's commentary on NY
NYKD - Kakyab Dorje's commentary on NY
OED - Rangjung Dorje's Ornament That Explains the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga
P - Peking Tibetan Tripiṭaka
PEW - Philosophy East and West
T - A Complete Catalogue of the Tibetan Buddhist Canons. Tohoku Imperial University, 1934
Taishō - Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (The Chinese Buddhist Canon). Ed. J. Takakusu, K. Watanabe. Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kanko kai, 1970
TBRC - The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (www.tbrc.org)
TOK - Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé's Treasury of Knowledge
WZKS - Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens
ZDC - Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé's commentary on ZMND
ZDKT - Karma Trinlépa's commentary on ZMND
ZMND - Rangjung Dorje's Profound Inner Reality
ZZB - Trimkang Lotsāwa's commentary on The Profound Inner Reality
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This superb collection of writings on buddha nature by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284–1339) focuses on the transition from ordinary deluded consciousness to enlightened wisdom, the characteristics of buddhahood, and a buddha’s enlightened activity. Most of these materials have never been translated comprehensively. The Third Karmapa’s unique and well-balanced view synthesizes Yogācāra, Madhyamaka, and the classical teachings on buddha nature. Rangjung Dorje not only shows that these teachings do not contradict each other but also that they supplement each other and share the same essential points in terms of the ultimate nature of mind and all phenomena. His fusion is remarkable because it clearly builds on Indian predecessors and precedes the later often highly charged debates in Tibet about the views of Rangtong ("self-empty") and Shentong ("other-empty"). Although Rangjung Dorje is widely regarded as one of the major proponents of the Tibetan Shentong tradition (some even consider him its founder), this book shows how his views differ from the Shentong tradition as understood by Dölpopa, Tāranātha, and the First Jamgön Kongtrul. The Third Karmapa’s view is more accurately described as one in which the two categories of rangtong and shentong are not regarded as mutually exclusive but are combined in a creative synthesis. For those practicing the sūtrayāna and the vajrayāna in the Kagyü tradition, what these texts describe can be transformed into living experience. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

Citation Brunnhölzl, Karl, trans. Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature. Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2009.