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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814606103321

Autore

Karma-phun-tshogs

Titolo

Mipham's dialectics and the debates on emptiness : to be, not to be or neither / / Karma Phuntsho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005

ISBN

1-134-26246-9

1-280-24103-9

9786610241033

0-203-08591-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in Buddhism

Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies ; ; 2

Disciplina

294.3/420423

Soggetti

Sunyata

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 EMPTINESS; 2 THE BIG FUSS ABOUT EMPTINESS; 3 WHAT IS NEGATED BY ULTIMATE ANALYSIS?; 4 THE FULLY EMPTY; 5 IS EMPTINESS KNOWABLE AND EFFABLE?; SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; APPENDIX III; APPENDIX IV; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME AND PLACE INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This is an introduction to the Buddhist philosophy of Emptiness which explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. It examines the critique by the leading Nyingma school philosopher Mipham (1846-1912) formulated in his diverse writings. The book focuses on related issues such as what is negated by the doctrine of emptiness, the nature of ultimate reality, and the difference between 'extrinsic' and 'intrinsic' emptiness.