Author: G. C. Nayak
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Category : Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Jaideva Singh
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120803268
Category : Buddhist philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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This brief introduction to Madhyamaka Philosophy gives a history of the rise and growth of Madhyamaka Philosophy, and the origin, structure, development and purpose of the Madhyamaka dialectic. It elucidated the distinction between Hinayana and Mahayana in respect of pratityasamutpada, nirvana, the ideal of religious discipline, the concept of Dharma, and the concept of Buddhology. It discusses the meaning of Sunya-Sunyata and its axiological and soteriological significance. Other important features of the present introduction are the clarification of the concepts of Madhyama Pratipad, Samvrti and Paramartha Satya, Tathata, Dharmadhatu and Bhutakoti.

Author: Kewal Krishan Mittal
Publisher:
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Category : Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Contributed papers presented at all India seminar.

Author: Gadjin M. Nagao
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791401873
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Nagao invariably focuses on the core of Mahāyāna Buddhism--the path of the Bodhisattva, the doctrine of śūnyatā, and the system of Trisvabhāva are explained. Important technical terms used in the Mahayana textual tradition, whose exact understanding is imperative for the study of Mahāyāna Buddhism, are skillfully presented, making the book indispensable to scholars of Buddhist studies.

Author: Hsueh-li Cheng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400977751
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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MADHYAMIKA The hallmark of Miidhyamika philosophy is 'Emptiness', sunyata. This is not a view of reality. In fact it is emphatically denied that sunyata is a view of reality. If anybody falls into such an error as to construe emptiness as reality (or as a view, even the right view, of reality), he is only grasping the snake at the wrong end (Mk, 24.1 I)! Nftgfujuna in Mk, 24.18, has referred to at least four ways by which the same truth is conveyed: Whatever is dependent origination, we call it emptiness. That is (also) dependent conceptualization; that is, to be sure, the Middle Way. The two terms, pratitya samutpiida and upiidiiya prajnapti, which I have translated here- as 'dependent origination' and 'dependent conceptualization' need to be explained. The interdependence of everything (and under 'everything' we may include, following the Mftdhyamika, all items, ontological concepts, entities, theories, views, theses and even relative truths), i.e., the essential lack of independence of the origin (cf. utpiida) of everything proves or shows that everything is essentially devoid of its assumed essence or its independent 'own nature' or its 'self-existence' (cf. svabhiiva). Besides, our cognition of anything lacks independence in the same way. Our conception (cf. prajnapti) of something a essentially depends upon something b, and so on for everything ad infinitum.

Author: Nancy McCagney
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847686278
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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In this innovative study of the philosopher Nagarjuna, Nancy McCagney demonstrates that the concept of space ('akasa') in early Indian Mahayana Buddhism is the root metaphor for Nagarjuna's understanding of 'sunyata', or openness. Nagarjuna's use of the term 'sunyata' was new, and contrasted with the word's use in Pali Buddhist literature. By using the word to mean 'openness,' Nagarjuna was able to elucidate, through a deeper analysis of impermanence, a consistent philosophical foundation for the truth and efficacy of Gautama's Middle Way. McCagney's book will be important for those studying Indian philosophy, Buddhism, and the philosophy of religion.

Author: Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
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Category : Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Treatise on the Buddhist Madhyamaka philosophy as propounded by Nagarjuna in his Madhyamakakārikā, and its relationship to the Prajñāpāramitāśāstra, Mahayana canonical texts.

Author: Henry D. Gerlits
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Category : Consumption (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Gajin Nagao
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887069529
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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The Madhyamika philosophy of Nagarjuna articulates the basic Mahayana insights in two themes: the identity of emptiness-dependent co-arising, and the two truths. In The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy, Gadjin M. Nagao, one of the foremost Buddhist scholars in the world, presents an in-depth interpretation of this foundational philosophy of Mahayana Buddhism. In this book, the author has culled data from Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Western sources, a rare feat which only a few scholars are capable of accomplishing. The translation is faithful, readable, and masterful.

Author: Chur Hyun Park
Publisher:
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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