Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka

A Philosophical Introduction

Jan Westerhoff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-537521-3 (ISBN)

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The Indian philosopher Acharya 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." His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the concept of sunyata or "emptiness." For Nagarjuna, all phenomena are without any svabhaba, literally "own-nature" or "self-nature," and thus without any underlying essence. In this book, Jan Westerhoff offers a systematic account of Nagarjuna's philosophical position. He reads Nagarjuna in his own philosophical context, but he does not hesitate to show that the issues of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy have at least family resemblances to issues in European philosophy.

Jan Westerhoff is a lecturer in Philosophy at University of Durham.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2010
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 155 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-19-537521-1 / 0195375211
ISBN-13	978-0-19-537521-3 / 9780195375213
Zustand	Neuware