Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka : a philosophical introduction / Jan Westerhoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westerhoff, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nāgārjuna, active 2nd century.

Nāgārjuna.

Mādhyamika (Buddhism).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Indian philosopher Acarya 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."" This book presents a survey of the whole of Nagarjuna's philosophy based on his key philosophical writings. His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies in the further development of the concept of sunyata or ""emptiness."" For Nagarjuna, all phenomena are without any svabhava,

Contents:

4.4 Affirming Four Alternatives: The Positive Tetralemma5. Causation; 5.1 Causation: Preliminary Remarks; 5.2 Interdependence of Cause and Effect; 5.3 The Four Ways of Causal Production; 5.4 Temporal Relations between Cause and Effect; 5.5 Analysis of Time; 6. Motion; 6.1 Arguments Concerning Motion; 6.2 The Beginning of Motion; 6.3 The Interdependence of Mover and Motion; 6.4 The Second Chapter of the MMK in Its Argumentative Context; 7. The Self; 7.1 The Self and Its Parts; 7.2 The Self and Its Properties; 7.3 Epistemology of the Self; 7.4 The Madhyamaka View of the Self; 8. Epistemology

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-538496-2

1-281-98715-8

9786611987152

0-19-970511-9

OCLC:

437093920