{"product_id":"the-profound-reality-of-interdependence-an-overview-of-the-wisdom-chapter-of-the-way-of-the-bodhisattva-9780197826751","title":"The Profound Reality of Interdependence: An Overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva","description":"The\u003cem\u003e Way of the Bodhisattva\u003c\/em\u003e, composed by the monk and scholar Śāntideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva. Over one thousand years after Śāntideva's composition, Künzang Sönam (1823-1905) produced the most extensive commentary on the \u003cem\u003eWay of the Bodhisattva \u003c\/em\u003eever written. This book is the first English translation of Künzang Sönam's overview of Śāntideva's notoriously difficult chapter on wisdom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ninth chapter of the \u003cem\u003eWay of the Bodhisattva\u003c\/em\u003e is philosophically very rich but forbiddingly technical, and can only be read well with a good commentary. Künzang Sönam's commentary offers a unique and complete introduction to the view of Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka, the summit of Buddhist philosophy in Tibet, as articulated by Tsongkhapa. It brings Śāntideva's text, and Tsongkhapa's interpretation of Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka, into conversation with a vast Buddhist literature from India and Tibet. By articulating the integral relationship between emptiness and interdependence, this text formulates a sustained and powerful argument for emptiness as a metaphysical basis of bodhisattva ethics. This volume makes the ninth chapter accessible to English-speaking teachers and students of the \u003cem\u003eWay of the Bodhisattva\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Duckworth\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eMipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and \u003cem\u003eJamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings \u003c\/em\u003e(2011). He also introduced and translated \u003cem\u003eDistinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Classic by Bötrül \u003c\/em\u003e(2011). He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2019).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580047556882,"sku":"9780197826751","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_892231a5-6072-418a-a92f-87038c385600.jpg?v=1756204539","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-profound-reality-of-interdependence-an-overview-of-the-wisdom-chapter-of-the-way-of-the-bodhisattva-9780197826751","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}