Arya Maitreya's Books

Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature

Maitreya's Dharmadharmatavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham

By: Arya Maitreya,Jamgon Mipham

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Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature

Maitreya's Dharmadharmatavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham

By: Arya Maitreya,Jamgon Mipham

Outlining the difference between appearance and reality, this work shows that the path to awakening involves leaving behind the inaccurate and limiting beliefs we have about ourselves and the world around us and opening ourselves to the limitless potential of our true nature. By divesting the mind of confusion, the treatise explains, we see things as they actually are. This insight allows for the natural unfolding of compassion and wisdom. According to tradition, Maitreya, the Buddha's regent, taught the root text of Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature to Asanga, who recorded the verses. The text is part of a larger collection of philosophical works that have become classics of the Indian Buddhist tradition. This volume includes commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, whose discussions illuminate the subtleties of the root text and provide valuable insight into the nature of reality and the process of awakening. Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham were both among the most influential figures to come out of the Tibetan tradition in recent centuries. Their writings contributed tremendously to the flourishing of Buddhist philosophy and practice in Tibet.

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113

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Shambhala Publications

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0834843838

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9780834843837

Middle Beyond Extremes

Maitreya's Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham

By: Arya Maitreya,Jamgon Mipham

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Middle Beyond Extremes

Maitreya's Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham

By: Arya Maitreya,Jamgon Mipham

Unraveling the subtle processes that condition our thinking and experience, Maitreya's teaching reveals a powerful path of compassionate vision and spiritual transformation. Middle Beyond Extremes contains a translation of the Buddhist masterpiece Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes. This famed text, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Madhyāntavibhāga, is part of a collection known as the Five Maitreya Teachings. Maitreya is held to have entrusted these profound and vast instructions to the master Asaṅga in the heavenly realm of Tuṣita. Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes employs the principle of the three natures to explain the way things seem to be as well as the way they actually are. It is presented here alongside commentaries by two outstanding masters of Tibet’s nonsectarian Rimé movement, Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham.

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166

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Shambhala Publications

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0834843994

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9780834843998

Abhisamayalamkara with Vrtti and Aloka - Vol. 2

By: Arya Vimuktisena (Vrtti),Haribhadra (Aloka)

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Abhisamayalamkara with Vrtti and Aloka - Vol. 2

By: Arya Vimuktisena (Vrtti),Haribhadra (Aloka)

Maitreya's Abhisamayalamkara is the most widely studied book in Tibet, where it was brought from India many centuries ago. It is used in all the monasteries to teach the path to Buddhahood, in accordance with the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. It teaches this in outline form, so it requires a commentary to be understood. The oldest extant commentary is Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti. Haribhadra, the most influential Indian commentator, drew upon this to write his Aloka. Virtually all of the many famous Tibetan teachers who wrote their own commentaries on the Abhisamayalamkara relied on Haribhadra as their primary source. This is the second of four volumes.

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355

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Jain Publishing Company

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0875730124

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9780875730127

Abhisamayalamkara with Vrtti and Aloka - Vol. 3

By: Arya Vimuktisena (Vrtti),Haribhadra (Aloka)

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Abhisamayalamkara with Vrtti and Aloka - Vol. 3

By: Arya Vimuktisena (Vrtti),Haribhadra (Aloka)

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0875730132

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9780875730134

Abhisamayalamkara with Vrtti and Aloka - Vol. 4

By: Arya Vimuktisena (Vritti),Haribhadra (Aloka)

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Abhisamayalamkara with Vrtti and Aloka - Vol. 4

By: Arya Vimuktisena (Vritti),Haribhadra (Aloka)

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0875730140

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9780875730141

Buddha Nature

The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra with Commentary

By: Arya Maitreya,Jamgon Kongtru Lodro Taye,Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso

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Buddha Nature

The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra with Commentary

By: Arya Maitreya,Jamgon Kongtru Lodro Taye,Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso

The Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand the ground of enlightenment and the nature and qualities of buddhahood. All sentient beings, without exception, have buddha nature—the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. Thus there is neither any reason for conceit nor self-contempt. This is obscured by veils that are removable and do not touch the inherent purity and perfection of the nature of the mind. The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the “Five Treatises” said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha’s definitive teachings on how we should understand this ground of enlightenment and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. This seminal text details with great clarity the view that forms the basis for Vajrayana, and especially Mahamudra, practice.

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