Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness: To Be, Not to Be or Neither

ISBN-13: 9780415599986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str.

Karma Phuntsho;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This is an exploration of a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Emptiness: Its Soteriological, Doctrinal, Ontological and Historical Significance in Buddhism  2. The Big Fuss about Emptiness: An Outline of the History of Debates on Emptiness  3. What is Negated by Ultimate Analysis? Debates on the Delimitation of the Mahyamika Negandum  4. The Fully Empty: Mipham's Theory of the Ultimate Reality  5. Is Emptiness Knowable and Effable?  Conclusion

O autorze

Karma Phuntsho was trained to be a Khenpo, a Tibetan monastic abbot, for about a dozen years during which he studied, practiced and taught Buddhism in several monasteries in Bhutan and India. In 2003, he received a PhD in Oriental Studies from Balliol College, Oxford. He currently works at the University of Cambridge and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris as post-doctoral researcher specializing in Buddhism and Bhutan. His main interest lies in the preservation and promotion of Buddhist and Bhutanese culture.