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In Praise of Dharmadhatu

Nagarjuna and Rangjung Dorje on Buddha Nature

By Nagarjuna
Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl
By Rangjung Dorje

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Nagarjuna
Looking for works by and about Nagarjuna?  We have a Reader's Guide to over a dozen works.  Come explore!  

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Snow Lion
06/01/2021
Pages: 432
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 9781611809688
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This book is included in our article series on the Five Maitreya Texts.  Explore more here.

Nāgārjuna's works sit at the heart of Mahāyāna Buddhist thought and practice, but he was renowned in Asia not only for his Madhyamaka work, but also his poetic collection of praises, most famously In Praise of Dharmadhatu. This book explores the scope, contents, and significance of Nāgārjuna’s scriptural legacy in India and Tibet, focusing primarily on this seminal work. The translation of Nāgārjuna’s hymn to buddha nature—here called dharmadhatu—shows how buddha nature is temporarily obscured in the experience of ordinary sentient beings, gradually uncovered through the path of bodhisattvas, and finally revealed in full bloom as buddhahood. Included is a translation of the text’s earliest and most extensive commentary by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284–1339), supplemented by relevant excerpts from all other available commentaries.
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Nagarjuna
Looking for works by and about Nagarjuna?  We have a Reader's Guide to over a dozen works.  Come explore!  

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Author Bio
Nagarjuna
NAGARJUNA, a South Indian Buddhist master who lived six-hundred years after the Buddha, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher.
Karl Brunnhölzl
Karl Brunnhölzl, MD, was trained as a physician and also studied Tibetology. He received his systematic training in Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Marpa Institute for Translators, founded by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Since 1989 he has been a translator and interpreter from Tibetan and English. He is presently involved with the Nitartha Institute as a teacher and translator.
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"Karl Brunnhölzl has done an excellent job of researching and translating this text and providing further material for reflection on the text’s key topics. This book will serve as a great resource for those who wish to explore the teachings on buddha nature." —Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, author of Rebel Buddha