Tibetan Buddhist philosophy of mind and nature /

Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature is a philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Charting the different ways Buddhist traditions in Tibet configure the relationship between Madhyamaka and Mind-Only, Duckworth shows how these configurations inform the shape of distinct contempl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duckworth, Douglas S., 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Between construction and immediacy
  • Emptying emptiness
  • Emptiness enframed and unenframed
  • Emptiness as performative and propositional
  • Nonduality of Madhyamaka and Yogacara
  • Ontology and phenomenology
  • Critical ontology in Madhyamaka arguments
  • Prasagika-Madhyamaka and radical deconstruction
  • Phenomenological analyses in mind-only
  • Self-awareness and the subject-object
  • Types of self-awareness
  • Mind and gnosis
  • The critical gaze of Geluk Prasagika
  • Concepts and the nonconceptual
  • Language and the roots of knowledge
  • Conception and perception
  • Prasagika-Madhyamaka and conventional foundations
  • Cultivation
  • Radical phenomenology
  • And the flesh became word: on the inversion and creation of value in Tantra
  • Mahamudra phenomenology
  • The great perfection
  • The ground as fruition
  • Appendix A: prologue to roar of the fearless lion
  • Appendix B: excerpt from A Lamp completely illuminating the profound reality of interdependence
  • Appendix C: the Buddhist philosophies section from the Concise summary of the philosophies of the wish-fulfilling treasury
  • Appendix D: Mahamudra meditation: the essential nature of the completion stage.