Nāgārjunian Disputations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nāgārjunian Disputations write by Thomas E. Wood. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Nāgārjunian Disputations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a defense of the earlier, nihilist interpretation (NI) of the Madhyamaka against some of the leading non-nihilist interpretations (NNI) that have arisen to challenge it in recent times.
Empty Words
Empty Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empty Words write by Jay L. Garfield. This book was released on 2002. Empty Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text is intended as a companion to Garfield's translation of The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, providing additional background, argument, and context.
Nagarjuna's Middle Way
Nagarjuna's Middle Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nagarjuna's Middle Way write by Mark Siderits. This book was released on 2013-04-22. Nagarjuna's Middle Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize. Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving Indian commentaries in an attempt to reconstruct an interpretation of its enigmatic verses that adheres as closely as possible to that of its earliest proponents. Each verse is accompanied by concise, lively exposition by the authors conveying the explanations of the Indian commentators. The result is a translation that balances the demands for fidelity and accessibility.
Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Indian Buddhist Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Buddhist Philosophy write by Amber Carpenter. This book was released on 2014-09-03. Indian Buddhist Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key themes that both tie the tradition together and are the focus for most critical dialogue: the idea of anatman or no-self, the appearance/reality distinction and the moral aim, or ideal. Indian Buddhist philosophy is shown to be a remarkably rich tradition that deserves much wider engagement from European philosophy. Carpenter shows that while we should recognise the differences and distances between Indian and European philosophy, its driving questions and key conceptions, we must resist the temptation to find in Indian Buddhist philosophy, some Other, something foreign, self-contained and quite detached from anything familiar. Indian Buddhism is shown to be a way of looking at the world that shares many of the features of European philosophy and considers themes central to philosophy understood in the European tradition.
Configurations of Comparative Poetics
Configurations of Comparative Poetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Configurations of Comparative Poetics write by Zong-qi Cai. This book was released on 2001-12-30. Configurations of Comparative Poetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive comparative study of Western and Chinese poetics begins with broad examinations of the two traditions over more than two and a half millennia. From these parallel surveys, a series of important theoretical questions arises: How do Western and Chinese critics conceptualize the nature, origin, and function of literature? What are the fundamental differences, if any, in their ways of thinking about literature? Can we account for these differences by examining Western truth-based and Chinese process-based cosmological paradigms? What are the major distinctive concepts of literature developed within Western and Chinese poetics? How have these concepts impacted the development of the two traditions at various times? After considering a wide range of major critical texts, Configurations of Comparative Poetics presents bold and cogent answers to these questions while shedding light on the distinctive orientations of Western and Chinese poetics. The second half of the book features four comparative case studies: Plato and Confucius on poetry; Wordsworth and Liu Xie on the creative process; the twentieth-century "Imagists" and their earlier Chinese counterparts on the relationship of the Chinese written character to poetics; and Derrida and the Madhyamika Buddhists on language and onto-theology. The author not only identifies an array of critical concerns shared by Western and Chinese critics, but also differentiates the conceptual models used by each and traces them to cosmological paradigms.
