Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature

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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas S. Duckworth, Douglas S. (Associate Professor Duckworth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780190883959
• ISBN: 978-0-19-088395-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Philosophy of religion, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Tibetan Buddhism