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Madhyamaka and Yogacara are the two principal schools of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. While Madhyamaka asserts the ultimate emptiness and conventional reality of all phenomena, Yogacara is usually considered to be idealistic. This collection of essays addresses the degree to which these philosophic...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Garfield, Jay L., 1955- (Editor), Westerhoff, Jan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Buddhist philosophy.
Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
Yogācāra (Buddhism)
RELIGION > Buddhism > General (see also PHILOSOPHY > Buddhist)
PHILOSOPHY > Buddhist.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Allies or Rivals?
  • Jay L. Garfield, Jan Westerhoff
  • 1) Pratityasamutpada and Dharmadhatu in Early Mahayana Buddhism
  • Chaisit Suwanvarangkul
  • 2) Language and existence in Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Preliminary reflections
  • Mattia Salvini
  • 3) Reification and Nihilism: The Three Nature Theory and Its Implications
  • Sonam Thakchöe
  • 4) The Case for Discontinuity
  • Mark Siderits
  • 5) "Undigested Pride": Bhaviveka on the Dispute Between Madhyamaka and Yogacara
  • David Eckel
  • 6) Xuanzang and Kuiji on Madhyamaka
  • Dan Lusthaus
  • 7) Nagarjuna's Yogaaa
  • Jan Westerhoff
  • 8) Nagarjuna the Yogacarin? Vasubandhu the Madhyamika? On the Middle-way between Realism and Anti-Realism
  • Eviatar Shulman
  • 9) Without Karma and Nirvana, Buddhism is Nihilism: The Yogacara Contribution to the Doctrine of Emptiness
  • Jonathan C. Gold
  • 10) Two Topics Concerning Consciousness in Santaraksita's Yogacara-Madhyamaka Syncretism
  • James Blumenthal
  • 11) I am a Brain in a Vat (Or Perhaps a Pile of Sticks By the Side of the Road)
  • Jay L. Garfield
  • Index.