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HOW THINGS EXIST

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LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE

How Things Exist

TEACHINGS ON EMPTINESS

Edited by Ailsa Cameron

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thubten Zopa, Rinpoche, 1945-

How things exist : teachings on emptiness / Lama Zopa Rinpoche ;

edited by Ailsa Cameron.

p. cm.

Summary: “This book begins with a general talk on universal respon-

sibility and compassion that is followed by four chapters detailing the

Prasangika Madhyamaka view of emptiness, or ultimate reality, as taught

in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and how to meditate on it,

according to the author’s personal experience”—Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-891868-20-7 (alk. paper)

1. Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)—Doctrines. 2. Prasangika. 3. Lam-rim. I. Cameron,

Ailsa. II. Title.

BQ7640.T49 2008

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. . . Contents . . .

Editor’s Preface

1. Universal Responsibility

2. How Things Exist

3. Lam-rim and Meditation on Emptiness 59

4. Different Ways of Looking at Things

5. Merely Labeled

Appendix

115

Bibliography

118

Glossary

119

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