How Long to Read Illuminating the Intent

How Long Does it Take to Read Illuminating the Intent?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 3 minutes to read Illuminating the Intent by Je Tsongkhapa

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

Description

"This work is an authoritative exposition of Candrakīrti's seventh-century classic Entering the Middle Way. Written primarily as a supplement to Nāgārjuna's Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, Candrakīrti's text integrates the central insight of Nāgārjuna's thought-the rejection of any metaphysical notion of intrinsic, objective being-with the ethical and edifying elements of the Buddha's teachings. He undertakes this by correlating the progressive stages of insight into the emptiness of intrinsic existence with the well-known Mahayana framework of the ten levels of the bodhisattva. Completed the year before the author's death, Tsongkhapa's exposition of Candrakīrti's text is recognized by the Tibetan tradition as the final standpoint of Tsongkhapa on many of the questions of Buddhist Madhyamaka philosophy. Written in lucid exemplary Tibetan, Tsongkhapa's work presents a wonderful marriage of rigorous Madhyamaka philosophical analysis with a detailed and subtle account of the progressively advancing mental states and spiritual maturity realized by sincere Madhyamaka practitioners. The work is still used as the principal textbook in the study of Indian Madhyamaka philosophy in many Tibetan monastic colleges. Tsongkhapa's extensive writings on Madhyamaka philosophy, including the present text, ushered in a new phase of engagement with the philosophy of emptiness in Tibet, giving rise to a great flowering of literary activity on the subject by subsequent Tibetan scholars like Gyaltsab Jé, Khedrup Jé, and the First Dalai Lama, as well as the critiques of Taktsang Lotsāwa, Gorampa, Shākya Chokden, and Karmapa Mikyö Dorjé and the subsequent responses to these by Tsongkhapa's followers, such as Jamyang Galo, Jetsun Chökyi Gyaltsen, and Panchen Losang Chögyen"--

How long is Illuminating the Intent?

Illuminating the Intent by Je Tsongkhapa is 721 pages long, and a total of 180,971 words.

This makes it 243% the length of the average book. It also has 221% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Illuminating the Intent Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 28 minutes to read Illuminating the Intent aloud.

What Reading Level is Illuminating the Intent?

Illuminating the Intent is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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