Buddhist Philosophy

Essential Readings

Jay Garfield, William Edelgass (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-532816-5 (ISBN)

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The Buddhist philosophical tradition is vast, internally diverse, and comprises texts written in a variety of canonical languages. It is hence often difficult for those with training in Western philosophy who wish to approach this tradition for the first time to know where to start, and difficult for those who wish to introduce and teach courses in Buddhist philosophy to find suitable textbooks that adequately represent the diversity of the tradition, expose students to important primary texts in reliable translations, that contextualize those texts, and that foreground specifically philosophical issues.

Buddhist Philosophy fills that lacuna. It collects important philosophical texts from each major Buddhist tradition. Each text is translated and introduced by a recognized authority in Buddhist studies. Each introduction sets the text in context and introduces the philosophical issues it addresses and arguments it presents, providing a useful and authoritative guide to reading and to teaching the text. The volume is organized into topical sections that reflect the way that Western philosophers think about the structure of the discipline, and each section is introduced by an essay explaining Buddhist approaches to that subject matter, and the place of the texts collected in that section in the enterprise.

This volume is an ideal single text for an intermediate or advanced course in Buddhist philosophy, and makes this tradition immediately accessible to the philosopher or student versed in Western philosophy coming to Buddhism for the first time. It is also ideal for the scholar or student of Buddhist studies who is interested specifically in the philosophical dimensions of the Buddhist tradition.

William Edelglass is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marlboro College. Previously he taught at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala, India. His research focuses on Buddhist philosophy, environmental philosophy, and twentieth century continental philosophy. Jay Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College. His books include the translations of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika: The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP, 1995); Tsong khapa's Ocean of Reasoning (OUP, 2002), and Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation (OUP, 2006).

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Metaphysics and Ontology
1: Theravada Metaphysics and Ontology: Kaccanagotta (Samyutta-nikaya) and Abhidhammatthasangaha Noa Ronkin
2: Jay L. Garfield: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way): Chapter XXIV: Examination of the Four Noble Truths
3: Jay L. Garfield: Vasubandhu's Trisvabhavanirde'sa (Treatise on the Three Natures)
4: James Blumenthal: Santaraksita's "Neither-One-Nor-Many" Argument from The Ornament of the Middle Way (Madhyamakalamkara): A Classical Buddhist Argument on the Ontological Status of Phenomena
5: Matthew Kapstein: Mipam Namgyel: The Lion's Roar Affirming Extrinsic Emptiness
6: Alan Fox: Dushun's Huayan Fajie Guan Men (Meditative Approaches to the Huayan Dharmadhatu)
7: Graham Parkes: Dogen's "Mountains and Waters as Sutras" (Sansui-kyo)
8: Bret Davis: Nishitani Keiji's "The Standpoint of Zen: Directly Pointing to the Mind"
Part II: Philosophy of Language and Hermeneutics
9: Richard Hayes: Sensation, Inference, and Language: Dignaga's Pramanasamuccaya
10: David Eckel: Jñanagarbha's Verses on the Distinction Between the Two Truths
11: José Cabezón: Language and the Ultimate: Do Madhyamikas Make Philosophical Claims? A Selection from Khedrupjey's Great Digest
12: Peter Gregory: Zongmi's Inquiry into the Origin of the Human Condition (Yuanren lun): The Hermeneutics of Doctrinal Classification
13: Steven Heine: Dogen's Shobogenzo Fascicles "Katto" and "Osakusendaba"
14: Michel Mohr: Beyond Awareness: Torei Enji's Understanding of Realization in the Treatise on the Inexhaustible Lamp of Zen, Chapter VI
Part III: Epistemology
15: Peter Harvey: The approach to knowledge and truth in the Theravada record of the discourses of the Buddha
16: Dan Arnold: Dharmakirti and Dharmottara on the Intentionality of Perception: Selections from "An Epitome of Philosophy" (Nyayabindu)
17: Brendan Gillon: The Role of Knowledge of Causation in Dharmakirti's Theory of Inference: The Pramana-varttika
18: Dan Lusthaus: Yogacara Theories of the Components of Perception: The Buddhabhumy-upade'sa
19: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp: Classification of Non-Authoritative Cognitive Processes (tshad min) in the Ngog and Sakya Traditions
20: Jay L. Garfield: Understanding the Two Truths: Tsongkhapa's Ocean of Reasoning: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's "Mulamadhyamakakarika"
21: Brook Ziporyn: The Deluded Mind as World and Truth: Epistemological Implications of Tiantai Doctrine and Praxis in Jingxi Zhanran's Jingangpi and Zhiguan yili
22: Bret Davis: The Presencing of Truth: Dogen's Genjokoan
Part IV: Philosophy of Mind and the Person
23: Peter Harvey: Theravada Philosophy of Mind and the Person: Anatta-lakkhana Sutta, Maha-nidana Sutta, and Milindapa 'nha
24: Dan Lusthaus: Pudgalavada Doctrines of the Person
25: James Duerlinger: Vasubandhu's Abhidharmako'sa: The Critique of the Pudgalavadins' Theory of Persons
26: Charles Goodman: Vasubandhu's Abhidharma-ko'sa: The Critique of the Soul
27: C.W. Huntington, Jr.: Candrakirti's Madhyamakavatarabhasya VI.86-97: A Madhyamaka Critique of Vijñanavada Views of Consciousness
28: Matthew Kapstein: 'Santaraksita's Tattvasamgraha: A Buddhist Critique of the Nyaya View of the Self
29: Hans-Rudolph Kantor: Zhiyi's Great Calming and Contemplation: "Contemplating Mental Activity as the Inconceivable Realm"
30: Jin Y. Park: "The Mind is Buddha": Pojo Chinul's Secrets on Cultivating the Mind
31: Gereon Kopf: Nishida's Conception of Person
Part V: Ethics
32: Theravada Texts on Ethics, Peter Harvey
33: William Edelglass: The Bodhisattva Path: 'Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
34: Gareth Sparham: Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi: The Morality Chapter
35: Jin Y. Park: Essentials of Observing and Violating Bodhisattva Precepts: Wonhyo's Non-Substantial Mahayana Ethics
36: William Edelglass: Thich Nhat Hanh's Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism
37: William Edelglass: Joanna Macy: The Ecological Self
38: Karma Lekshe Tsomo: Buddhist Feminist Reflections
Contributors

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.4.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	241 x 160 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-19-532816-7 / 0195328167
ISBN-13	978-0-19-532816-5 / 9780195328165
Zustand	Neuware