Tricycle magazine
"...thorough, comprehensive...useful reference for students...[Nagarjuna's writing] becomes more accessible through Brunnholzl's clear prose."
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This book is primarily about buddha nature--called dharmadhatu here--the potential in all living beings to awaken to their mind's primordial true nature, thus freeing themselves and others from suffering. The great Buddhist master Nagarjuna shows how buddha nature exists in all beings, is temporarily obscured, and can be revealed in its full bloom. The emphasis is on the actual experience of mind's vivid wakefulness.
The themes of this text are brought to a deeper level by the inclusion of a translation of its earliest, most extensive commentary by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339). His distinct positions on buddha nature and the transformation of consciousness into enlightened wisdom also serve as the fundamental view for the entire vajrayana as understood and practiced in the Kagyu tradition to the present day.
Nagarjuna, the South Indian Buddhist Master who lived six hundred years after the Buddha, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher.
The Third Karmapa (1284-1339) was a renowned Buddhist master, teacher, and writer.
Karl Brunnhözl lives in Seattle, Washington.
