Self, reality and reason in Tibetan philosophy : Tsongkhapa's quest for the Middle Way /
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| Author / Creator: | Thupten Jinpa. |
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| Imprint: | Richmond; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. |
| Description: | xvi, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Curzon critical studies in Buddhism |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4753924 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Context and Methodological Issues
- The historical contexts of Tsongkhapa's thought
- Questions of originality and development in Tsongkhapa's Madhyamaka philosophy
- Textual sources for an exegesis of Tsongkhapa's Madhyamaka philosophy
- Tsongkhapa's qualms about early Tibetan understandings of emptiness
- 2. Delineating the Parameters of Madhyamaka Reasoning
- Tsongkhapa's reading of the four-cornered argument in Madhyamaka reasoning
- Distinguishing between the domains of conventional and ultimate discourses
- Two senses of 'ultimate' in the Madhyamaka dialectic
- Identifying the object of negation
- That which is 'not found' and that which is 'negated'
- A logical analysis of the forms of negation
- Tsongkhapa's critique of autonomous reasoning
- 3. Tsongkhapa's Deconstruction of the Self
- Levels of selfhood according to Tsongkhapa
- Inadequacies of the Buddhist reductionist theory of no-self
- The Madhyamaka seven-point analysis of self: A brief outline
- An analysis of the concept of intrinsic existence
- No-self as the emptiness of intrinsic existence
- 4. Personal Identity, Continuity, and the I-consciousness
- Personal identity and dependent origination
- The nature of the I-consciousness
- Individuality, continuity, and rebirth
- The analogy of the chariot
- 5. No-Self, Truth, and the Middle Way
- To exist is to exist in the conventional sense
- Everyday reality as fiction-like
- Beyond absolutism, nihilism, and relativism
- No-self, reason, and soteriology. Wylie Transliteration of Tibetan Names.
