Knowing, Naming, and Negation: A Sourcebook on Tibetan Sautrantika

by Anne Carolyn Klein, Kensur Yeshey Tupden (Contributor)

This is a challenging book on the nitty-gritty issues of Sautranika philosopy, the basis of Madhyamika epistemology.

Genres: Buddhism

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Anne Carolyn Klein, Ph.D. (Religious/Tibetan Studies, University of Virginia; M.A. Buddhist Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, where she was formerly Chair of the Department of Religion. In 2010, she received the title of Dorje Lopon as Lama Rigzin Drolma from her teacher, Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. She is a co-founder of Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple in Houston, Texas, where she remains a resident teacher.

Reviews

[bad · Rating 5 out of 5]

foundation work for knowledge and liberation, by the same author. this book contains some of the source texts for many of the major ideas in the other book. this one is a little tougher of a read, but quite rewarding if you can muscle through it. not dramatically different from knowledge and liberation, which was presented from the author's perspective, rather this book comes from the original texts and commentators, thus has a style more foreign to westerners even than the current academic treatments, but very interesting in its own way, if you can jump across that historical/cultural divide.

[Isaac Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Extremely academic and dense, yet there is a practicality woven throughout the text because the subject matter is always in the context of how to use it to liberate from suffering.