Madhyamaka and Yogacara (eBook, PDF)

Allies or Rivals?
Redaktion: Garfield, Jay L.; Westerhoff, Jan

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Produktbeschreibung

Madhyamaka and Yogacara are the two principal schools of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. While Madhyamaka asserts the ultimate emptiness and conventional reality of all phenomena, Yogacara is usually considered to be idealistic. This collection of essays addresses the degree to which these philosophical approaches are consistent or complementary. Indian and Tibetan doxographies often take these two schools to be philosophical rivals. They are grounded in distinct bodies of sutra literature and adopt what appear to be very different positions regarding the analysis of emptiness and the status of mind. Madhyamaka-Yogacara polemics abound in Indian Buddhist literature, and Tibetan doxographies regard them as distinct systems. Nonetheless, scholars have tried to synthesize the two positions for centuries. This volume offers new essays by prominent experts on both these traditions, who address the question of the degree to which these philosophical approaches should be seen as rivals or as allies. In answering the question of whether Madhyamaka and Yogacara can be considered compatible, contributors engage with a broad range of canonical literature, and relate the texts to contemporary philosophical problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190231309
• Artikelnr.: 42513412

Autorenporträt

Jay L. Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Professor of Humanities and Head of Studies in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, Recurrent Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. Professor Garfield teaches and pursues research in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, theoretical and applied ethics and epistemology. Jan Westerhoff is a University Lecturer in Religious Ethics, University of Oxford, a Fellow and Tutor in Theology and Religion, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford and a Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research concentrates on systematic aspects of ancient Indian philosophy, especially on Madhyamaka.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Introduction: Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Allies or Rivals? - Jay L.
Garfield, Jan Westerhoff
* 1) Pratityasamutpada and Dharmadhatu in Early Mahayana Buddhism -
Chaisit Suwanvarangkul
* 2) Language and existence in Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Preliminary
reflections - Mattia Salvini
* 3) Reification and Nihilism: The Three Nature Theory and Its
Implications - Sonam Thakchöe
* 4) The Case for Discontinuity - Mark Siderits
* 5) "Undigested Pride": Bhaviveka on the Dispute Between Madhyamaka
and Yogacara - David Eckel
* 6) Xuanzang and Kuiji on Madhyamaka - Dan Lusthaus
* 7) Nagarjuna's Yogaaa - Jan Westerhoff
* 8) Nagarjuna the Yogacarin? Vasubandhu the Madhyamika? On the
Middle-way between Realism and Anti-Realism - Eviatar Shulman
* 9) Without Karma and Nirvana, Buddhism is Nihilism: The Yogacara
Contribution to the Doctrine of Emptiness - Jonathan C. Gold
* 10) Two Topics Concerning Consciousness in Santaraksita's
Yogacara-Madhyamaka Syncretism - James Blumenthal
* 11) I am a Brain in a Vat (Or Perhaps a Pile of Sticks By the Side of
the Road) - Jay L. Garfield
* Index