{"product_id":"resurrecting-candrakirti-kevin-a-vose-9780861715206","title":"Resurrecting Candrakirti: Disputes in the Tibetan Creation of Prasangika","description":"The seventh-century Indian master Candrakirti lived a life of relative obscurity, only to have his thoughts and writings rejuvenated during the Tibetan transmission of Buddhism. Since then, Candrakirti has been celebrated as offering the most thorough and accurate vision of Nagarjuna's view of emptiness which, in turn, most fully represents the final truth of the Buddha's teaching. Candrakirti's emptiness denies the existence of any \"nature\" or substantial, enduring essence in ourselves or in the phenomenal world while avoiding the extreme view of nihilism. In this view, our false belief in nature is at the root of our ignorance and is the basis for all mental and emotional pain and disturbance. For many Tibetan scholars, only Candrakirti's Middle Way entirely overcomes our false belief in inherent identity and, consequently, alone overcomes ignorance, delivering freedom from the cycle of uncontrolled death and rebirth known as samsara. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCandrakirti's writings have formed the basis for Madhyamaka study in all major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. In \u003ci\u003eResurrecting Candrakirti\u003c\/i\u003e, Kevin Vose presents the reader with a thorough presentation of Candrakirti's rise to prominence and the further elaborations the Tibetans have made on his presentation of emptiness. By splitting Madhyamaka into two subschools, namely the Svatantrika and Prasangika, the Tibetans became pioneers in understanding reality and created a new way to define differences in interpretation. \u003ci\u003eResurrecting Candrakirti\u003c\/i\u003e provides the historical and philosophical context necessary to understand both Madhyamaka and its importance to Tibetan Buddhist thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin A. Vose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0861715209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780861715206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wisdom Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Kevin A. Vose","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241133977855,"sku":"9780861715206","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42018c65-ec42-497e-898e-58cfa10aa421.jpg?v=1772652901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/resurrecting-candrakirti-kevin-a-vose-9780861715206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}