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Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature offers a philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Engaging some of the most difficult and critical topics in Buddhist thought, Douglas Duckworth provides a richly textured overview that explores the intersecting nature of mind, language, and world depicted across Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Between Construction and Immediacy
- Chapter 2: Nonduality of Madhyamaka and Yog?c?ra
- Chapter 3: Self-Awareness and the Subject-Object
- Chapter 4: Concepts and the Nonconceptual
- Chapter 5: Radical Phenomenology
- Conclusion
- 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"
- Bibliography
About the author
Douglas S. Duckworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University. He is the author of Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition and Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings. He also introduced and translated Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Classic by Bötrül. He serves as the co-editor of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy.
Summary
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature offers a philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Engaging some of the most difficult and critical topics in Buddhist thought, Douglas Duckworth provides a richly textured overview that explores the intersecting nature of mind, language, and world depicted across Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
