Madhyamaka

Formulation of the Topic for Analysis We’ve seen that a temporal interval is what we’re speaking about in Buddhism when we speak about time, an interval between the occurrence of a cause and the occurrence of an effect. And what is most common that everybody accepts is that...

(1) The Sage has spoken about all these branches for the sake of discriminating awareness. Therefore, generate discriminating awareness with the wish to pacify sufferings. (2) Surface and deepest, these are accepted as being the two truths. The deepest aren't cognitive...

An overview of the ninth chapter of ""Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior"" concerning the Prasangika Madhyamaka view of voidness.

Madhyamaka masters use the five great Madhyamaka lines of reasoning to establish the voidness of self-established true existence.

Meditation on emptiness as the way to develop deepest bodhichitta.

A survey of the Madhyamaka view of karmic impulses, through the works of the great masters such as Nagarjuna, Buddhapalita, Bhavaviveka, Chandrakirti and Tsongkhapa.

Grasping for truly established existence entails both projecting an appearance of such an impossible mode of existence and believing it corresponds to reality. Dormant grasping for it occurs when one or both aspects of grasping are not manifest.