Reason and Experience in Tibetan Buddhism: Mabja Jangchub Tsondru and the Culture of the Middle Way

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Based on newly discovered texts, this book explores the barely known but tremendously influential thought of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Mabja Jangchub Tsondru (d. 1185). This Tibetan Buddhist master exercised significant influence on the interpretation of Madhyamaka thinking in Tibet during the formative phase of Tibetan Buddhism and plays a key role in the religious thought of his day and beyond. The book studies the framework of Mabja’s philosophical project, holding it up against the works of both his own Madhyamaka teachers as well as those of central authors of the later ‘classical period’. The emerging account of the evolution of Madhyamaka in Tibet reveals a striking pattern of transformative appropriations.