Emptiness: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought by Geshe Tashi Tsering & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall

Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Rituals & Practice, Religion, Buddhism, Eastern, General
ISBN: 9780861715114
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2009-04-01T01:49:20+00:00

For the Prasangika Madhyamaka masters such as Chandrakirti, the obscurations to enlightenment have been identified as the propensities of the innate mind to grasp at things and events as having inherent existence. And so, the obscuration is both the propensities and the dualistic appearance itself, in the sense that things and events appear to have intrinsic existence. This is more subtle than grasping at inherent nature; it is the fact that such an inherent nature actually appears to the mind. Of this, Lama Tsongkhapa says:Because of the pervasion since beginningless time of attachment to things appearing as inherently existing, certain latent propensities are firmly set in the mindstream. These latencies give rise to erroneous dualistic appearance; phenomena appear to exist inherently whereas they do not. These mistaken views are obscurations to enlightenment.34

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