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The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy: The Oxford History of Philosophy

Autor Jan Westerhoff
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Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the common era and continues up to the time of Dharmakirti in the sixth century. This period was characterized by the development of a variety of philosophical schools and approaches that have shaped Buddhist thought up to the present day: the scholasticism of the Abhidharma, the Madhyamaka's theory of emptiness, Yogacara idealism, and the logical and epistemological works of Dinnaga and Dharmakirti. The book attempts to describe the historical development of these schools in their intellectual and cultural context, with particular emphasis on three factors that shaped the development of Buddhist philosophical thought: the need to spell out the contents of canonical texts, the discourses of the historical Buddha and the Mahayana sutras; the desire to defend their positions by sophisticated arguments against criticisms from fellow Buddhists and from non-Buddhist thinkers of classical Indian philosophy; and the need to account for insights gained through the application of specific meditative techniques. While the main focus is the period up to the sixth century CE, Westerhoff also discusses some important thinkers who influenced Buddhist thought between this time and the decline of Buddhist scholastic philosophy in India at the beginning of the thirteenth century. His aim is that the historical presentation will also allow the reader to get a better systematic grasp of key Buddhist concepts such as non-self, suffering, reincarnation, karma, and nirvana.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198732662
ISBN-10: 019873266X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 163 x 242 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria The Oxford History of Philosophy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Jan Westerhoff's book is an ambitious and thorough addition to The Oxford History of Philosophy series. This book, written by an eminent specialist in the field of Buddhist philosophy, serves as an advanced introduction to a fertile period of philosophy
This book may be transformational for Western scholars, because in it Westerhoff stresses the overemphasis on Indian Buddhist philosophy of the classical era and settles Nāgārjuna into a richer philosophical community in the Golden Age. The overall journey of this rigorous study is noteworthy: it flows well throughout, thanks in part to the organization of the ideas... Summing Up: Highly Recommended.
An excellent new history of Buddhist philosophy in India... very readable... in the sense of focusing on essentials, without attempting to go into too many details.
The detailed table of contents and main idea phrases in the margins aid both reference and focus. This reviewer anticipates that this book will be much cited in future scholarship and teaching.

Notă biografică

Jan Westerhoff was educated at Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has taught Philosophy at the Universities of Oxford and Durham and is presently Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Theology and Religion at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His books include Ontological Categories (2005), Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka (2009), Twelve Examples of Illusion (2010), The Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani (2010), and A Very Short Introduction to Reality (2011), all published by Oxford University Press.