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Freedom from Extremes: Gorampa's "Distinguishing the Views" and the Polemics of Emptiness (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism) (edit title)

Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-sen?-ge (Author) (edit contributors)

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Fifteenth-century Buddhist scholar Gorampa challenged his contemporaries’ thinking about the fundamental concept of “emptiness,” pioneering an approach that avoided what he critiqued as the traps of eternalism and nihilism. Freedom from Extremes is his powerful polemic on the subject. This... read more

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The Indian and Tibetan Buddhist sources tell us that the purpose of life is to attain enlightenment for the sake of others.

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  1. Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-sen?-ge (Author)
 

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