Cultivating Original Enlightenment

Contents

v Contents Preface vii Abbreviations and Conventions xi Part 1: Study III. Contemplative Practice in the Exposition of the VajrasamŒdhi-Sûtra 3 III. The Writing of the Exposition 17 III. The Exposition as Commentary 28 Part 2: Wõnhyo’s Exposition of the Vajrasamâdhi-Sûtra: An Annotated Translation ROLL ONE 47 Part One: A Statement of Its Main Idea 47 Part Two: An Analysis of the Themes of the Sûtra 48 Part Three: An Explication of the Title 50 Part Four: An Exegesis of the Text 57 Section One: Prologue 57 Section Two: Main Body 62 First Division of Contemplation Practice: Rejecting All Characteristics of Sense-Objects to Reveal the Signless Contemplation 65 ROLL TWO 116 Second Division of Contemplation Practice: Extinguishing the Mind Subject to Production in Order to Explain the Practice of Nonproduction 116 Third Division of Contemplation Practice: The Inspiration of Original Enlightenment 137 vi Contents Fourth Division of Contemplation Practice: Abandoning the Spurious to Access Reality 166 ROLL THREE 211 Fifth Division of Contemplation Practice: Sanctified Practices Emerge from the Voidness of the True Nature 211 Sixth Division of Contemplation Practice: Immeasurable Dharmas Access the TathŒgatagarbha 243 Section Three (A): DhŒraÿî [Codes] 271 Section Three (B): Dissemination 271 Appendix: A Schematic Outline of Wõnhyo’s Exposition of the Vajrasamâdhi-Sûtra 309 Notes 335 Glossary of Sinitic Logographs 377 Bibliography 385 Index 411 ...