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A history of Buddhist philosophy : continuities and discontinuities / David J. Kalupahana.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©1992.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages)ISBN:
  • 0585295921
  • 9780585295923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History of Buddhist philosophy.DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 181.043 K14H 20
LOC classification:
  • BQ4090 .K36 1992eb
Contents:
Early Buddhism. Indian philosophy and the search for ultimate objectivity -- Life of the Buddha -- Knowledge and understanding -- Experience and theory (paticcasamuppana and paticcasamuppada) -- Language and communication -- The human personality -- The object -- The problem of suffering -- Freedom and happiness -- The moral life -- Popular religious thought.
Continuities and discontinuities. The emergence of absolutism -- Moggaliputta-tissa and the Kathavatthu -- Abhidhamma -- The perfection of wisdom in the Vajracchedika -- Nagarjuna and the Mulamadhyamakakarika -- The Saddharmapundarika-sutra and conceptual absolutism -- The Lankavatara-sutra and the great emptiness (maha-sunyata) -- Vasubandhu and the Vijnaptimatratasiddhi -- Dignaga's epistemology and logic -- Buddhaghosa, the harmonizer -- Tantras and parittas : the voiceful tradition -- Silent meditation and Ch'an (Zen) : the voiceless tradition.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.

Early Buddhism. Indian philosophy and the search for ultimate objectivity -- Life of the Buddha -- Knowledge and understanding -- Experience and theory (paticcasamuppana and paticcasamuppada) -- Language and communication -- The human personality -- The object -- The problem of suffering -- Freedom and happiness -- The moral life -- Popular religious thought.

Continuities and discontinuities. The emergence of absolutism -- Moggaliputta-tissa and the Kathavatthu -- Abhidhamma -- The perfection of wisdom in the Vajracchedika -- Nagarjuna and the Mulamadhyamakakarika -- The Saddharmapundarika-sutra and conceptual absolutism -- The Lankavatara-sutra and the great emptiness (maha-sunyata) -- Vasubandhu and the Vijnaptimatratasiddhi -- Dignaga's epistemology and logic -- Buddhaghosa, the harmonizer -- Tantras and parittas : the voiceful tradition -- Silent meditation and Ch'an (Zen) : the voiceless tradition.

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