Research Catalog

Title

How do Mādhyamikas think? : and other essays on the Buddhist philosophy of the middle / Tom J.F. Tillemans.

Author

Tillemans, Tom J. F.

Publication

Somerville, MA : Wisdom, [2016]

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Details

Description

vii, 279 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

• Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
• Mādhyamika (Buddhism)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Madhyamaka's Promise as Philosophy -- 1. Trying to Be Fair -- 2. How Far Can a Madhyamika Reform Customary Truth? Dismal Relativism, Fictionalism, Easy-Easy Truth, and the Alternatives -- Logic and Semantics -- 3. How Do Madhyamikas Think? -- Notes on Jay Garfield, Graham Priest, and Paraconsistency -- 4. "How Do Madhyamikas Think?" Revisited -- 5. Prasanga and Proof by Contradiction in Bhaviveka, Candrakirti, and Dharmakirti -- 6. Apoha Semantics: What Did Bhaviveka Have to Do with It? -- 7. What Happened to the Third and Fourth Lemmas in the Tibetan Madhyamaka? -- Ethics and the Spiritual Path -- 8. Madhyamaka Buddhist Ethics -- 9. Reason, Irrationality, and Akrasia (Weakness of the Will) in Buddhism: Reflections upon Santideva's Arguments with Himself -- 10. Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Enlightenment: The Epistemological Issues in a Key Debate between Madhyamaka and Chan -- Madhyamaka in Contemporary Debates -- 11. On Minds, Dharmakirti, and Madhyamaka -- 12. Serious, Lightweight, or Neither: Should Madhyamaka Go to Canberra?.

ISBN

• 1614292515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781614292517 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2015032359

OCLC

• 913304409
• SCSB-12244350

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library