Empty Words Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation,9780195146721

Empty Words Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation

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ISBN13: 9780195146721
ISBN10: 0195146727
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-06
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This volume collects Jay Garfield's essays on Madhyamaka, Yog-ac-ara, Buddhist ethics and cross-cultural hermeneutics. The first part addresses Madhyamaka, supplementing Garfield's translation of Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP, 1995), a foundational philosophical text by the Buddhist saint Nagarjuna. Garfield then considers the work of philosophical rivals, and sheds important light on the relation of Nagarjuna's views to other Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical positions.

Table of Contents

PART I. MADHYAMAKA
Epoche and Sunyata: Scepticism East and West
3(21)
Dependent Arising and the Emptiness of Emptiness: Why Did Nagarjuna Start with Causation?
24(22)
Emptiness and Positionlessness: Do the Madhyamika Relinguish All Views?
46(23)
Nagarjuna's Theory of Casuality: Implications Sacred and Profane
69(17)
Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought (with Graham Priest)
86(23)
PART II. YOGACARA
Three Natures and Three Naturelessnesses: Comments Concerning Cittamatra Conceptual Categories
109(19)
Vasubandhu's Treatise on the Three Natures: A Translation and Commentary
128(24)
Western Idealism through Indian Eyes: A Cittamatra Reading of berkeley, Kant, and Schopenhauer
152(18)
Sounds of Silence: Ineffability and the Limits of Language in Madhyamaka and Yogacara
170(17)
PART III. ETHICS AND HERMENEUTICS
Human Rights and Compassion: Toward a Unified Moral Framework
187(19)
Buddhism and Democracy
206(14)
The ``Satya'' in Sathyagraha: Samdhong Rinpoche's Approach to Nonviolence
220(9)
Temporality and Alterity---Dimensions of Hermeneutic Distance
229(22)
Philosophy, Religion, and the Hermeneutic Imperative
251(10)
Notes 261(30)
References 291(8)
Index 299

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