Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way
school of Buddhist philosophy and the most influential of all Buddhist
thinkers aside from the Buddha himself, concludes his masterpiece,
_Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way_, with these baffling verses:
_For the abandonment of all views
He taught the true teaching
By means of compassion
I salute him, Gautama _
But how could anyone possibly abandon _all_ views? In _Buddhism
between Religion and Philosophy_, Rafal K. Stepien shows not only how
Nāgārjuna's radical teaching of no-view or "abelief" makes sense
within his Buddhist philosophy, but also how it stands at the summit
of his religious mission to care for all living beings. Rather than
treating any one aspect of Nāgārjuna's ideas in isolation, here his
metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics emerge as a single coherent and
convincing philosophical-religious system of thought and practice.
Grounded in meticulous study of original texts from classical India
and China but innovating on the theories and methods underpinning
contemporary scholarship East and West, this study shows how
profoundly important voices from the diverse religious and
philosophical traditions of the world have until now been diminished,
distorted, and silenced. In opening up truly global horizons of
existing and co-existing in the world, this work challenges the very
ways in which we think about religion and philosophy.
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Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197771327
Publisert
2024
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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