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Appendix D: References

Buddhist sources

  • Dharmakīrti. Nyāyabindu, with Dharmottara's commentary. Translated by F. Th. Stcherbatsky in Buddhist Logic, vol. II. Bibliotheca Buddhica 26. Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1930; Dover reprint, New York, 1962. The definition of perception as free from conceptual construction is in the Nyāyabindu literature; Dignāga's formula is pratyakṣaṃ kalpanāpoḍhaṃ, and Dharmakīrti adds "non-erroneous."
  • Dignāga. Pramāṇasamuccaya, chapter 1. Translated by Masaaki Hattori, Dignāga, On Perception, being the Pratyakṣapariccheda of Dignāga's Pramāṇasamuccaya. Harvard Oriental Series 47. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.
  • Dōgen. Genjōkōan. Translated by Paul Jaffe in Hakuun Yasutani, Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Zen Master Dōgen's Genjōkōan. Boston: Shambhala, 1996. The Jaffe wording of the firewood-and-ash passage is as shown on the Terebess Zen Literature page for the Genjōkōan: https://terebess.hu/zen/dogen/KS-Genjo.html.
  • Dōgen. "Painting of a Rice Cake" (Gabyō). Translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Dan Welch. In Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dōgen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. Chapter 22 quotes two sentences of the fascicle in this translation.
  • Garfield, Jay L. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (MMK 24.18 translation; verse numbering in Appendix A.)
  • Longchenpa. The Natural Freedom of the Nature of Mind (Sems nyid rang grol). Translated by Herbert V. Guenther as "The Natural Freedom of Mind," Crystal Mirror IV (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1975); and by Tulku Thondup as "Naturally Liberated Mind, the Great Perfection," in The Practice of Dzogchen (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1989). Cited in Chapter 20 for its theme.
  • Milindapañha. The lamp image of Nāgasena (Book II). Translated by T. W. Rhys Davids, The Questions of King Milinda, Part I. Sacred Books of the East 35. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.
  • Mipham. Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection. Translated and introduced by John Whitney Pettit. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1999.
  • Robinson, Richard H. Early Mādhyamika in India and China. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. (MMK 24.18 translation.)
  • Siderits, Mark, and Shōryū Katsura. Nāgārjuna's Middle Way: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Classics of Indian Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2013. (MMK 24.18 translation; verse numbering in Appendix A.)
  • Sprung, Mervyn, trans., with T. R. V. Murti and U. S. Vyas. Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way: The Essential Chapters from the Prasannapadā of Candrakīrti. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. (Also issued by Prajñā Press, Boulder, 1979.) Source of the MMK 24.18 rendering cited in Chapter 14.
  • Tsongkhapa. Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path (Lam rim chen mo), special-insight section (Lhag mthong chen mo, Great Exposition of Special Insight). Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee, The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, vol. 3, edited by Joshua W. C. Cutler and Guy Newland. Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2002. Source of the three criteria for conventional existence (Chapter 13).
  • Udāna 1.10, the Bahiya sutta. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.1.10.than.html. Chapters 2 and 21 quote this translation.

Dzogchen and Madhyamaka secondary sources consulted for the glossary

  • "Ground (Dzogchen)." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_(Dzogchen). Source for the basis, Longchenpa's account of the ground as a ground only from a relative perspective, the description of ka dag, and Namkhai Norbu's "uncreated" description.
  • "Dzogchen." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzogchen. Source for self-release (rang grol).
  • "Rigpa." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigpa. Source for rigpa as knowledge of the ground, the opposite ma rigpa, vidyā, and rig stong.
  • "Svabhava." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svabhava. Source for the Tibetan rang bzhin in both senses.
  • "Automatic release." Study Buddhism glossary. https://studybuddhism.com/en/glossary/automatic-release. Source for rang grol.
  • "Dharmatā." Tsadra Commons. https://commons.tsadra.org/index.php/Dharmat%C4%81. Source for the standard glosses of chos nyid.
  • "Ka dag." Buddha-Nature Key Terms, Tsadra. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Ka_dag. Source for the gloss of ka dag as the empty nature of phenomena.
  • "Pratītyasamutpāda." Bodhicitta Key Terms, Tsadra. Source for the MMK 24.19 wording.
  • "Primordial ground" and "ngo bo rang bzhin thugs rje gsum." Rangjung Yeshe Wiki. https://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/primordial_ground and https://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/ngo_bo_rang_bzhin_thugs_rje_gsum. Source for the three aspects of the basis (essence, nature, compassion).
  • "Gsal stong" and "stong pa'i 'od gsal." Rangjung Yeshe Wiki (RYI Dictionary). https://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/gsal_stong and https://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/stong_pa%27i_%27od_gsal. Sources for the openness and luminosity glosses.
  • Higgins, David. Entries in the Lexicon of Tibetan Buddhist Topics and Terminology, Tibetan and Himalayan Library (KMaps, University of Virginia), including ka dag (https://terms.kmaps.virginia.edu/features/260). Source for "Higgins (via KMaps)" in the glossary entries Lhun grub, Openness and Primordial purity.
  • Higgins, David. The Philosophical Foundations of Classical rDzogs chen in Tibet: Investigating the Distinction between Dualistic Mind (sems) and Primordial Knowing (ye shes). Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 78. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 2013. Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Université de Lausanne, 2012.
  • Malcolm Smith (Ācārya). DharmaWheel forum posts on the translation of rigpa; and the Wisdom Podcast interview, The Dzogchen Aural Lineage (episode 205).
  • Kobayashi, Hisayasu. 「灯火の喩え――プラジュニャーカラグプタの自己認識理論――」 (The Lamp as an Example for Self-Awareness: Prajñākaragupta's Theory). Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū (Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies) 70, no. 2 (2022). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.70.2_926.
  • Arnold, Dan. "Candrakīrti on Dignāga on Svalakṣaṇas." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 26, no. 1 (2003): 139–174. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jiabs/article/download/8934/2827.
  • MacDonald, Anne. "The Madhyamakāvatāra's Critique of Yogācāra." Lecture, Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Universität Hamburg, 12 January 2022. Source for Candrakīrti's critique of svasaṃvedana in Madhyamakāvatāra ch. 6. https://www.kc-tbts.uni-hamburg.de/events/2022-01-12-macdonald.html.

Philosophical and scientific sources

  • Dreyfus, Hubert L. "Overcoming the Myth of the Mental: How Philosophers Can Profit from the Phenomenology of Everyday Expertise." Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 79, no. 2 (2005): 47–65.
  • Feynman, Richard P., Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1, chapter 4, "Conservation of Energy." Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1963.
  • Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Yvette. The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century. Translated by Bertram E. Schwarzbach. New York: Springer, 2011. Includes the English translation of Noether's paper.
  • Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Book II, chapter 8 (primary and secondary qualities). Edited by Peter H. Nidditch. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
  • Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
  • McDowell, John. Mind and World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
  • McDowell, John. "What Myth?" Inquiry 50, no. 4 (2007): 338–351.
  • Newton, Isaac. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687), Scholium to the Definitions. Translated by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
  • Noether, Emmy. "Invariante Variationsprobleme." Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse (1918): 235–257.
  • Núñez, Rafael E., and Eve Sweetser. "With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence from Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time." Cognitive Science 30, no. 3 (2006): 401–450. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0000_62.
  • Sellars, Wilfrid. "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind." In The Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, edited by Herbert Feigl and Michael Scriven, 253–329. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956.