The Dispeller Of Disputes

Author : Nāgārjuna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199732701
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dispeller of Disputes written by Nāgārjuna and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is one of the most important Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical texts. Jan Westerhoff offers a new translation, reflecting the best current philological research & all available editions, adding his own commentary on the text.

Author : Jan Westerhoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199745456
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dispeller of Disputes written by Jan Westerhoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is an essential work of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical literature. Written in an accessible question-and-answer style, it contains Nagarjuna's replies to criticisms of his philosophy of the "Middle Way." The Vigrahavyavartani has been widely cited both in canonical literature and in recent scholarship; it has remained a central text in India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and has attracted the interest of greater and greater numbers of Western readers. In The Dispeller of Disputes, Jan Westerhoff offers a clear new translation of the Vigrahavyavartani, taking current philological research and all available editions into account, and adding his own insightful philosophical commentary on the text. Crucial manuscript material has been discovered since the earlier translations were written, and Westerhoff draws on this material to produce a study reflecting the most up-to-date research on this text. In his nuanced and incisive commentary, he explains Nagarjuna's arguments, grounds them in historical and textual scholarship, and explicitly connects them to contemporary philosophical concerns.

Author : Nāgārjuna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199777365
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dispeller of Disputes written by Nāgārjuna and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is one of the most important Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical texts. Jan Westerhoff offers a new translation, reflecting the best current philological research & all available editions, adding his own commentary on the text.

Author : Nāgārjuna
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120802155
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialectical Method of Nāgārjuna written by Nāgārjuna and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in India, this text was fortunately discovered by Rahula Sankrtyayana in a Tibetan monastery.

Author : Jan Westerhoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199750912
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twelve Examples of Illusion written by Jan Westerhoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetan Buddhist writings frequently state that many of the things we perceive in the world are in fact illusory, as illusory as echoes or mirages. In Twelve Examples of Illusion, Jan Westerhoff offers an engaging look at a dozen illusions--including magic tricks, dreams, rainbows, and reflections in a mirror--showing how these phenomena can give us insight into reality. For instance, he offers a fascinating discussion of optical illusions, such as the wheel of fire (the "wheel" seen when a torch is swung rapidly in a circle), discussing Tibetan explanations of this phenomenon as well as the findings of modern psychology, and significantly clarifying the idea that most phenomena--from chairs to trees--are similar illusions. The book uses a variety of crystal-clear examples drawn from a wide variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy and cognitive science, as well as the history of science, optics, artificial intelligence, geometry, economics, and literary theory. Throughout, Westerhoff makes both Buddhist philosophical ideas and the latest theories of mind and brain come alive for the general reader.

Author : Jan Westerhoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019104704X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy written by Jan Westerhoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the common era and continues up to the time of Dharmakirti in the sixth century. This period was characterized by the development of a variety of philosophical schools and approaches that have shaped Buddhist thought up to the present day: the scholasticism of the Abhidharma, the Madhyamaka's theory of emptiness, Yogacara idealism, and the logical and epistemological works of Dinnaga and Dharmakirti. The book attempts to describe the historical development of these schools in their intellectual and cultural context, with particular emphasis on three factors that shaped the development of Buddhist philosophical thought: the need to spell out the contents of canonical texts, the discourses of the historical Buddha and the Mahayana sutras; the desire to defend their positions by sophisticated arguments against criticisms from fellow Buddhists and from non-Buddhist thinkers of classical Indian philosophy; and the need to account for insights gained through the application of specific meditative techniques. While the main focus is the period up to the sixth century CE, Westerhoff also discusses some important thinkers who influenced Buddhist thought between this time and the decline of Buddhist scholastic philosophy in India at the beginning of the thirteenth century. His aim is that the historical presentation will also allow the reader to get a better systematic grasp of key Buddhist concepts such as non-self, suffering, reincarnation, karma, and nirvana.

Author : Steven M. Emmanuel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119144663
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy written by Steven M. Emmanuel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy is the most comprehensive single volume on the subject available; it offers the very latest scholarship to create a wide-ranging survey of the most important ideas, problems, and debates in the history of Buddhist philosophy. Encompasses the broadest treatment of Buddhist philosophy available, covering social and political thought, meditation, ecology and contemporary issues and applications Each section contains overviews and cutting-edge scholarship that expands readers understanding of the breadth and diversity of Buddhist thought Broad coverage of topics allows flexibility to instructors in creating a syllabus Essays provide valuable alternative philosophical perspectives on topics to those available in Western traditions

Author : Jan Westerhoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199705119
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka written by Jan Westerhoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the "second Buddha." His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the concept of sunyata or "emptiness." For Nagarjuna, all phenomena are without any svabhaba, literally "own-nature" or "self-nature," and thus without any underlying essence. In this book, Jan Westerhoff offers a systematic account of Nagarjuna's philosophical position. He reads Nagarjuna in his own philosophical context, but he does not hesitate to show that the issues of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy have at least family resemblances to issues in European philosophy.

Author : Jay L. Garfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199888744
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pointing at the Moon written by Jay L. Garfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies. Many have distinguished scholarly records in Western philosophy, with expertise in analytic philosophy and logic, as well as deep interest in Buddhist philosophy. Others have distinguished scholarly records in Buddhist Studies with strong interests in analytic philosophy and logic. All are committed to the enterprise of cross-cultural philosophy and to bringing the insights and techniques of each tradition to bear in order to illuminate problems and ideas of the other. These essays address a broad range of topics in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics, and demonstrate the fecundity of the interaction between the Buddhist and Western philosophical and logical traditions.

Author : Nāgārjuna
Publisher : American Institute of Buddhist Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nāgārjuna's Reason Sixty with Chandrakīrti's Reason Sixty Commentary written by Nāgārjuna and published by American Institute of Buddhist Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reason Sixtyis the most concise philosophical work by the second-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna. This heavily annotated translation is accompanied by detailed introductory essays, critical Tibetan editions, trilingual and technical glossaries, timelines, bibliography, and index.