The Buddhaʼs Single Intention: A Core Teaching of the Kagyü Tradition

随着这本书的出版，第一次有可能全面了解西藏第二次传播教学这一重要传统的早期巩固阶段。这一传统——kagy<e:1>派——的特点是对那些在很大程度上基于印度学者著作的佛教传统持高度怀疑态度。到目前为止，这种怀疑的传统只作为一种“反智运动”出现，尤其是在大卫·杰克逊的开创性著作《单一手段的启蒙》中。随着即将出版的这本书的出版，这一传统第一次以自己的声音和程序说话，涵盖了佛教的各个方面。这本书提供了13世纪初《单意》的基本文本翻译和1633年的注释翻译。广泛的注释还包括两本1260年代的早期注释。这不仅展示了噶格<e:1>派在与释迦派和格鲁派的学术传统对抗中捍卫自己传统的后期视角，而且第一次提供了对尚未以护教学为特征的早期阶段的彻底洞察。首先要强调这一点，因为学术研究到目前为止主要是研究这一传统的印度先驱，以及从14世纪后期开始的西藏护教学。另一方面，第一个寺院建立的时间和早期的巩固阶段，在很大程度上仍然是噶格<s:1>巴传统的空白页。

With the publication of this book, for the first time, a comprehensive view of the early consolidation phase of a crucial tradition of the second spread of teaching in Tibet is made possible. This tradition - the Kagyüpas - has been characterized by a high degree of skepticism towards those traditions of Buddhism which to a significant extent based themselves on the writings of Indian scholars. So far, this skeptical tradition has been made visible only as an "anti-intellectual movement", especially in David Jackson's groundbreaking book Enlightenment by a Single Means. With the forthcoming publication, the tradition now speaks for the first time with its own voice and program, covering all aspects of Buddhism.The book offers a translation of the basic text of the Single Intention (dGongs gcig) from the early 13th century and a translation of a commentary of 1633. The extensive annotation also includes two early commentaries from the 1260s. This not only presents the later perspective in which the Kagyüpas defended their tradition against the scholarly traditions of the Sakyapa and Gelugpa but also for the first time provides a thorough insight into an early phase that is not yet characterized by apologetics. This is to be emphasized above all because academic research has so far dealt predominantly with the Indian precursors of this tradition as well as with the later Tibetan phase of the beginning apologetics from the late 14th century onwards. The time of the first monastic foundations and the early consolidation phase, on the other hand, are still largely a blank sheet with regard to the Kagyüpa tradition.