How Long to Read Groundless Paths

How Long Does it Take to Read Groundless Paths?

It takes the average reader 15 hours and 22 minutes to read Groundless Paths by Karl Brunnholzl

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the prajñaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the prajñaparamita sutras—the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through buddhahood. Groundless Paths contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries from the perspective of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. This study consists mainly of translations of Maitreya's famous text and two commentaries on it by Patrul Rinpoche. These are supplemented by three short texts on the paths and bhumis by the same author, as well as extensive excerpts from commentaries by six other Nyingma masters, including Mipham Rinpoche. Thus this book helps close a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the prajñaparamita sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. Arya Maitreya's Ornament of Clear Realization, with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries, presents the complex dynamics of the path to liberation as a succession of realizations of the empty nature of all phenomena. This presentation is a powerful antidote to whatever two-dimensional views we might hold about spiritual experience and the journey to enlightenment.

How long is Groundless Paths?

Groundless Paths by Karl Brunnholzl is 897 pages long, and a total of 230,529 words.

This makes it 303% the length of the average book. It also has 282% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Groundless Paths Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 59 minutes to read Groundless Paths aloud.

What Reading Level is Groundless Paths?

Groundless Paths is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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