Jeffrey Hopkins: Emptiness as the Meaning of Dependent-arising, Class #75 (2022-01-18)

At the beginning the class addresses the question about conventionalities and explores the meaning through different translations of the term. Class then returns to the text, resuming at chapter 16. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s Commentary, which is drawn from The Dalai Lama, Kindness, Clarity, and Insight, trans. and ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins.
The chapter starts by quoting Tsong-kha-pa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path:
“If you are not endowed with the wisdom realizing the mode of subsistence,
Even though you have familiarized with the thought definitely to leave cyclic existence and the altruistic mind,
You cannot cut the root of cyclic existence.
Therefore strive at the means for realizing dependent-arising.”
Main reading, page 385-386:
Jeffrey Hopkins: Emptiness in the Middle Way School of Buddhism: Mutual Reinforcement of Understanding Dependent-Arising and Emptiness, volume IV
Section on the Emptiness as the Meaning of Dependent-arising. The book is freely available on UMA Tibet website: uma-tibet.org/p...