Despite the striking similarities between Pyrrhonian skepticism and Madhyamaka Buddhism, few lessons have been drawn from the ... the two traditions. Here, it is argued that Madhyamaka Buddhism verifies the livability of Pyrrhonian skepticism. After establishing that Pyrrhonism and Madhyamaka can be understood as undertaking the same project, it is shown that Madhyamaka philosophy is able to refute objections to the viability of Pyrrhonism. Finally, it is demonstrated that Madhyamaka is still a lived practice in Tibetan Buddhism, ...
Tópico(s): Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
2018 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
... to be found in subsequent ancient Pyrrhonist and Mādhyamaka texts suggest its continued plausibility. In both the Pyrrhonist texts of Sextus Empiricus and the Mādhyamaka texts of Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti, we are repeatedly ... enlightenment. A comparative analysis of these Pyrrhonist and Mādhyamaka texts finds that what differences exist are entirely ... too much to say that Pyrrhonism and the Mādhyamaka are nearly indistinguishable from one another, an intriguing ...
Tópico(s): Medieval and Classical Philosophy
2007 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
... greater degree of precision into our understanding of Madhyamaka Buddhist ontological non-foundationalism, focussing specifically on the Madhyamaka founder Nāgārjuna (c. 150–250 CE). It distinguishes ... sortal essentialism). It then proceeds to delineate the Madhyamaka refutation of the specific substantialist position in terms ... to other forms of non-foundationalism according to Madhyamaka.
Tópico(s): Emotions and Moral Behavior
2021 - Springer Nature | Journal of Indian Philosophy
... question—much debated among Tibetan interpreters of Indian Madhyamaka—of whether or not these M dhyamika critiques ... on The Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence, by Paul Williams Journal of Buddhist Ethics ... 1998 The reflexive nature of awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka defence London Curzon [Google Scholar], pp. 19–35); ... of the Middle Way: A study of the Madhyamaka thought of Śntarakita Ithaca NY Snow Lion [Google ...
Tópico(s): Emotions and Moral Behavior
2005 - Routledge | Asian Philosophy
... heterodox—although, as I will argue, absolutely orthodox Madhyamaka—within at least one major living tradition in which Madhyamaka is preserved and practiced: the dGe lugs pa ... what might be seen from a proper Prāsangika-Madhyamaka point of view as the very subtlest form ... consistency of Dharmakīrti's pramānavāda and Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka. We will conclude with a few observations on ...
Tópico(s): Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
2001 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
Sonam Thakchöe, Julien Tempone Wiltshire,
It is well known in contemporary Madhyamaka studies that the seventh century Indian philosopher Candrakīrti rejects the foundationalist Abhidharma epistemology. The question that is still open to debate is: Does Candrakīrti offer any alternative Madhyamaka epistemology? One possible way of addressing this question ... statements? The Tibetan Prāsaṅgika interpreters of Candrakīrti's Madhyamaka largely agree that there is no internal contradiction ... two radically conflicting proposals to approach Candrakīrti's Mādhyamaka; both claiming to successfully address the apparent tension ...
Tópico(s): Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
2019 - Springer Nature | Journal of Indian Philosophy
The history of the Madhyamaka, one of the two main Indian Mahayana Buddhist philosophical traditions, began around the second century AD with the appearance of ... examines the three stages of development of Chinese Madhyamaka, focusing attention on the different ways the representative figures of each stage applied basic Madhyamaka principles to deal with the central Buddhist doctrinal ...
Tópico(s): Indian History and Philosophy
1995 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... the view are expressed by thinkers from Chinese Madhyamaka Buddhism, which may shed light on the current ... of worldly indeterminacy. Using as a basis Chinese Madhyamaka thought, together with Jessica Wilson's account of ...
Tópico(s): Indian History and Philosophy
2019 - Routledge | Australasian Journal of Philosophy
... of emptiness and mystical experience — the case of Madhyamaka: The problem of Buddhist religiosity is one of ... philosophical and religious traditions of the Mediterranean area. Madhyamaka is the Buddhist tradition which many researchers saw ... conclude that they either cannot be applied to Madhyamaka or that the application is only illusory.
Tópico(s): Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
2017 - Pedagogical University of Cracow | Argument Biannual Philosophical Journal
... contradictions as true are members of the Indian Madhyamaka school beginning with Nāgārjuna. This claim is investigated ... while it may be possible to read Indian Madhyamaka in this way, the texts allow another interpretation ... further investigation is the soteriological significance of the Madhyamaka understanding of emptiness.
Tópico(s): Indian and Buddhist Studies
2013 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
... character. It is in this context that the Madhyamaka school denied the substantial reality of dharmas, claiming ... the psychological significance of this term in the Madhyamaka school, see below. 2. The following, psychological explanations ... 4. The name of this Mahāyāna-Buddhist stream (Madhyamaka) refers to a main question from a psychological ...
Tópico(s): Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Contemporary Buddhism
... the key figure in the revival of Chinese Madhyamaka in the late sixth century, and his teaching ... to be the apex of the development of Madhyamaka thought in China.' This essay attempts to examine ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
1993 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
... not-p . A non-adjunctive dialetheism would further Madhyamaka's quietism, in that the same asserted statements ... Deguchi, Garfield, and Priest could further a quietist Madhyamaka philosophy.
Tópico(s): Eurasian Exchange Networks
2013 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
... Ruegg, 2002 Ruegg, DS. 2002. Two prolegomena to Madhyamaka philosophy, Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien. [ ...
Tópico(s): Classical Philosophy and Thought
2007 - Routledge | Asian Philosophy
Personal Identity, Minimalism, and Madhyamaka Roy W. Perrett I The diachronic problem of personal identity is the problem of specifying what it is that makes ...
Tópico(s): Free Will and Agency
2002 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
Joseph S. O’Leary, Terry C. Muck,
... of the two truths (conventional and ultimate) in Madhyamaka Buddhism. What does this “opening up” do to ... 1982, opened my eyes to the world of Madhyamaka thought. Any criticisms? Predictably, the book has come ...
Tópico(s): Karl Barth and Christian Theology
1999 - University of Hawaii Press | Buddhist-Christian Studies
... how the concept of non-duality, from the Madhyamaka perspective, has served as a powerful rhetorical device ... transformation. Among the various expressions representative of the Madhyamaka perspective, two are particularly explored in this article ... eva prahātavyāḥ prāg evâdharmāḥ). I argue that the Madhyamaka expression of ‘neither A nor not-A’ is ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2014 - Routledge | Asian Philosophy
Whether the metaphysical commitments of Madhyamaka Buddhism afford a satisfactory justificatory ground for moral judgments is investigated here. Finnigan and Tanaka (2011) argue that they do not. ... claim is contested here with respect to Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka. Several arguments are provided to show that Prāsaṅgika ...
Tópico(s): Indian and Buddhist Studies
2015 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
... in the ambiguous and paradoxical rhetoric of early Madhyamaka scriptures translated by Kumārajīva (344–413). This essay ... as we find it in the early Chinese Madhyamaka scriptures.
Tópico(s): Emotions and Moral Behavior
2014 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
S. Shaun Ho, Yoshio Nakamura, Meroona Gopang, James E. Swain,
... literature. Finally, inspired by Arya Nagarjuna’s Buddhist Madhyamaka Philosophy, we described abstract expressions of Dependent Origination ...
Tópico(s): Mental Health Research Topics
2022 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Psychology
... reducing suffering.I turn to the antifoundationalist Buddhist Madhyamaka tradition to offer an example of a version of antifoundationalism that escapes this dilemma.The Madhyamaka Buddhist, I argue, because of his careful analysis ... to removing the suffering of others, that of Madhyamaka Buddhism, avoids this dilemma.Like Rorty, the Madhyamaka does not believe we can appeal to language ... values we ought to accept.Like Rorty, the Madhyamaka places great emphasis on
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
2010 - Brill | Contemporary Pragmatism
Georges Dreyfus, Jay L. Garfield,
... the work of Nāgārjuna as interpreted by later Madhyamaka tradition, including the Tibetan Buddhist Tsongkhapa (1357–1419). It situates Madhyamaka skepticism in the context of Buddhist philosophy, Indian ... it broadly akin to Pyrrhonism, it argues that Madhyamaka skepticism still differs from its Greek equivalents in ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2021 - Brill | International Journal for the Study of Skepticism
... s understanding of śūnyatā , before arguing that a Madhyamaka interpretation of śūnyatā , within the context of the ... Hick's understanding. The article suggests that the Madhyamaka interpretation of śūnyatā can be used to reconfigure ...
Tópico(s): Theology and Philosophy of Evil
2020 - Cambridge University Press | Religious Studies
... reactionary fictionalism can be found in Classical Daoism, Madhyamaka Buddhism, and Pyrrhonian Skepticism. Reactionary fictionalism is a ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2020 - Wiley | The Southern Journal of Philosophy
Tópico(s): Medieval and Classical Philosophy
2019 - Springer Nature | Journal of Indian Philosophy
Hans-Rudolf Kantor, Mattia Salvini,
Tópico(s): South Asian Studies and Conflicts
2019 - Springer Nature | Journal of Indian Philosophy
... skeptical – way of life. The contemporaneous founder of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy, Nāgārjuna, also embodies a form of ...
Tópico(s): Medieval and Classical Philosophy
2018 - Springer International Publishing | Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures
Tópico(s): Indian History and Philosophy
2017 - Springer Nature | Journal of Indian Philosophy

Tópico(s): Emotions and Moral Behavior
2016 - Springer Nature | Journal of Indian Philosophy
... or self? I will draw on the Yogācāra–Madhyamaka synthesis of Śāntarakṣita (eighth century common era) to ...
Tópico(s): Emotions and Moral Behavior
2015 - Routledge | Asian Philosophy