Blogs about: Madhyamaka

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Repa Dorje Odzer wrote 2 months ago: A participant and fellow traveler on the journey created by the new class on Buddhist Tantra which r … more →

Tags: Buddhism, Buddhism, Buddhist Chaplaincy, Buddhist Prayer and Ritu, Buddhist Practice, Buddhist Tantra, Tantra, bliss, good stuff, Buddhist Chaplain, Buddhist Hermenutics

Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation, and Falsification (Newland)

John Willemsens wrote 2 months ago: Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation, and Falsification: Models of the Conventional in Tsongkh … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, Emptiness, nisvabhava, chandrakirti, Tsongkhapa, Guy Martin Newland

The So-Called Narrative View of the Self (Westerhoff)

John Willemsens wrote 2 months ago: The So-Called Narrative View of the Self (from Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka, A Philosophical Introdu … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, nisvabhava, Jan Westerhoff, Daniel Dennett

Karma in Advayavada Buddhism

John Willemsens wrote 2 months ago: In Advayavada Buddhism we say that karma is the operation of incessant pratityasamutpada (interdepen … more →

Tags: Advayavada Buddhism, karma, pratityasamutpada

Nagarjuna and the Madhyamika School (Ling)

John Willemsens wrote 2 months ago: Nagarjuna and the Madhyamika school (from A History of Religion East and West, by Prof. Trevor Ling, … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, T.R.V. Murti, Emptiness, Trevor Ling

The Madhyamika Absolute is epistemic (Chatterjee)

John Willemsens wrote 3 months ago: The Madhyamika Absolute is epistemic (from The Yogacara Idealism, by Ashok Kumar Chatterjee, forewor … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, T.R.V. Murti, Avidya, Ashok Kumar Chatterjee

Embracing Physicalism in Buddhism (Siderits)

John Willemsens wrote 4 months ago: Embracing Physicalism in Buddhism (from Buddhism and Techno-physicalism: Is the Eightfold Path a Pro … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, Nirvana, karma, Rebirth, Mark Siderits

Nagarjuna and Madhyamika Buddhism (Potter)

John Willemsens wrote 4 months ago: Nagarjuna and Madhyamika Buddhism (from Presuppositions of India’s Philosophies, by Prof. Karl … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, pratityasamutpada, Emptiness, Karl H. Potter

The Nirvanic Realm, Here and Now (Inada)

John Willemsens wrote 4 months ago: The Nirvanic Realm, Here and Now (from Nagarjuna, A Translation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika, by Prof … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Mahayana Buddhism, Excerpts, nagarjuna, Nirvana, Emptiness, Kenneth K. Inada

Buddhism is about Solving a Problem (Garfield)

John Willemsens wrote 4 months ago: Buddhism is about Solving a Problem (from Taking Conventional Truth Seriously, by Jay L. Garfield, i … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, Duhkha, Jay L. Garfield, conventional truth, absolute truth, Avidya

Pratitya-samutpada (Tachikawa)

John Willemsens wrote 4 months ago: Pratitya-samutpada (from An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nagarjuna, by Prof. Musashi Tachikawa, … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, pratityasamutpada, Emptiness, Musashi Tachikawa

Being-determined and Self-determination are One (Nishitani)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: Being-determined and Self-determination are One (from Religion and Nothingness, by Prof. Keiji Nishi … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, karma, pratityasamutpada, Emptiness, Avidya, keiji nishitani

The Philosophy of Emptiness (Abe)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: The Philosophy of Emptiness (from Zen and Western Thought, by Prof. Masao Abe, edited by Prof. Willi … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Emptiness, Excerpts, Masao Abe, nagarjuna, pratityasamutpada

Two Types of Negation (Huntington)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: Two Types of Negation (from The Emptiness of Emptiness, by Prof. C.W. Huntington Jr., with Geshe Nam … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, pratityasamutpada, Emptiness, chandrakirti, C.W. Huntington Jr.

The Doctrine of Karman in Candrakirti (Kragh)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: The Doctrine of Karman in Candrakirti (by Ulrich T. Kragh, in an email presentation, 2001) In Buddhi … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, karma, pratityasamutpada, chandrakirti, Causality, Ulrich T. Kragh

The Emptiness of Phenomena is not Nonexistence (Garfield)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: The Emptiness of Phenomena is not Nonexistence (from Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika, by Jay … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, pratityasamutpada, Jay L. Garfield, Emptiness

The Origins of the Madhyamaka Philosophy (Della Santina)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: The Origins of the Madhyamaka Philosophy (from Madhyamaka Schools in India – A Study of the Ma … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, Peter Della Santina, pratityasamutpada, Emptiness

Emptiness or the Void (Copleston)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: Emptiness or the Void (from Religion and the One, by Prof. Frederick Copleston, London 1982) Denial … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, Nirvana, Emptiness, frederick copleston

The Doctrine of Pratitya-samutpada (Narain)

John Willemsens wrote 5 months ago: The doctrine of pratitya-samutpada (from The Madhyamika Mind, by Prof. Harsh Narain, Delhi 1997) The … more →

Tags: Relevant Excerpts, Excerpts, nagarjuna, pratityasamutpada, Emptiness, conventional truth, absolute truth, Harsh Narain


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