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Tibetan Buddhist philosophy of mind and nature
Title:
Tibetan Buddhist philosophy of mind and nature
Author:
Duckworth, Douglas S., 1971- author.
ISBN:
9780190883959
Physical Description:
viii, 314 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Abstract:
"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 contemplative practices"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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