Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries (Contributions to Tibetan Studies)

English description: Since the 12th century, a central feature of Buddhism in Tibet was its harmonizing of tantric practice with the moral codes of monastic discipline and Bodhisattva altruism. All masters maintained the vajrayana or tantric path to be superior to the two "lower" codes, but they described this superiority differently. In the present study, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch explores for the first time in detail the three main strategies maintained by the oldest Tibetan schools for explaining the relations of the three codes. German description: Ein Kernpunkt des tibetischen Buddhismus ist seine Harmonisierung tantrischer Praxis mit dem Moralkodex klosterlicher Disziplin und dem Altruismus der Bodhisattvas. Alle Gelehrten vertraten die Ansicht, dass Vajrayana bzw. der tantrische Pfad den Regeln der beiden "niederen" Fahrzeuge uberlegen sei, sie beschrieben diese Uberlegenheit jedoch unterschiedlich. In der vorliegenden Studie werden von Jan-Ulrich Sobisch zum ersten Mal die drei hauptsachlichen Strategien im Detail untersucht, die von den altesten tibetischen Schulen vertreten werden, um das Verhaltnis der drei Kodizes zueinander zu erlautern. Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries Contents 6 List of Abbreviations 12 Acknowledgements 16 1 Introduction 18 2 Vibhuticandra, Go-rams-pa, and Their Works of the Three-Vow Genre 38 3 Vibhuticandra's Explanation of All three Systems of Vows 52 4 Vibhuticandra on How the Three Vows are Possessed 84 5 Go-rams-pa On the Sa-skya-pa Doctrine of the Three Vows 89 106 6 The Main Passages on the Three-Vow Controversy from the Treatises of Vibhiiticandra and Go-rams-pa: Texts and Translations 114 7 Go-rams-pa's Sa-skya-pa Doctrine of the Three Vows : Text and Translation 148 8 The Remaining Parts of Vibhiiticandra's Garlan of Rays: Text and Translation 182 9 The Three-Vow Theories of Gam-po-pa 194 10 Karma-'phrin-Ias-pa on the Theory of the Three Vows: His Replies to the Questions of Ngo-gr and rGya-ston 234 11 Two of Karma-'phrin-Ias-pa's Replies about the Three Vows: Texts and Translations 258 12 The Three-Vow Theories of two Prominent Karma bKa'-brgyud-pa Masters of the Eighteenth and Nine- teenth Centuries 290 13 The Development of the Key Three-Vow Concepts in the Karma bKa'-brgyud-pa Tradition 322 14 The Three-Vow Doctrine of the'Bri-gung-pa 346 15 The Three-Vow Doctrines of the rNying-ma-pas 408 Appendix A Outline of Go-rams-pa's General Topics 466 Appendix B Outline of Go-rams-pa's Detailed Expos it ion 478 Appendix C Object -1 Bibliography 500 1. Works of Modern Scholarship 500 2. Indian and ibetan Works 514 Index 526 1. English Terms and Sanskrit Proper Nouns and Terms 526 2. Tibetan Terms 566 3. Tibetan Proper Nouns 574 4. Tibetan Book Titles 583 5. Sanskrit Book Titles 589 Buddhism,Theravada,Mahayana,Varjayana,Three-Vows Buddhism, Theravada, Mahayana, Varjayana, Three-Vows By Jan-ulrich Sobisch. Includes Bibliographiocal References (p. [483]-507) And Indexes.