Jan Westerhoff (Professor of Budd Professor of Buddhist Philosophy

Broschiertes Buch

The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy

Beschreibung

Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy during the first millennium CE. He aims to offer the reader a systematic grasp of key Buddhist concepts such as non-self, suffering, reincarnation, karma, and nirvana.

Autor

Jan Westerhoff was educated at Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has taught Philosophy at the Universities of Oxford and Durham and is currently Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Theology and Religion at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. HIs books include Ontological Categories (2005), Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka (2009), Twelve Examples of Illusion (2010), The Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani (2010), and A Very Short Introduction to Reality (2011), all published by OUP.

Produktdetails

• The Oxford History of Philosophy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780198878391
• ISBN-10: 0198878397
• Artikelnr.: 66220861