Waking into Compassion: The Three Ālambana of Karuṇā

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Anyone who becomes familiar with Buddhist thought eventually has to deal with the question of how compassion can be meaningful, if both its agent and its object are ultimately unreal. The ultimate truth of Buddhism, whether that truth is no-self or emptiness, seems to deny both the object of compassion and the compassionate subject. The Buddhist ethic, which takes the suffering of sentient beings seriously, seems to be at odds with its ultimate truth, which denies the very existence of those beings. This chapter begins by taking up how this presents itself to us as a philosophical and interpretive problem, and then investigates Indian Buddhist sources that recognized and directly addressed these problems in systematic thought. The motif of the three objects, or ālambana, of karuṇā served as a frame for discussing how compassion made sense to Mādhyamika thinkers such as Candrakīrti, Śāntideva, and Prajñākaramati. (Jenkins, preliminary remarks, 97)

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Jenkins, Stephen. "Waking into Compassion: The Three Ālambana of Karuṇā." In Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness, edited by The Cowherds, 97–117. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Contains essays exploring a variety of ways in which to understand important Buddhist texts on ethics and Mahayana moral theory.