The madhyamika mind/ Harsh Narain

By: Narain, HarshMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1997Description: 173 pISBN: 8120812026Subject(s): Madhyamika-buddhismDDC classification: 294.392
Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE BUDDHA'S MIND The Categorical, the Allegorical, and the Equivocal in the Buddha Wooing and Jilting Metaphysics The Conflicting Thrusts of the Metaphysical in the Buddha 3. LOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS Realism Culminating in Destructed Nihilism Reaction to Realism Culminating in Absolute Nihilism Tension between Absolute Nihilism and Absolutism in the Madhyamika Idealism, Absolutism, Docetism Theo-Buddhism The Soul's Hideouts The Buddhist Mind Divided against Itself 4. CONFUCTING INTERPRETATIONS The Nihilistic Interpretation The Metaphysical-Absolutistic Interpretation The Soteriological-Absolutistic Interpretation The Linguistic-Analytic Interpretation Harking Back to the non-Madhyamika Traditions The Madhyamika's Confession 5. GERMS OF NIHILISM IN NON-BUDDHIST TRADITIONS The Vedic 'Asal' The Nyaya-Vaisesika Asai-Kdrya The Lokayata Negativism Pre-Buddhistic Upholders of Four-Comered Negation 6. EVOLUTION OF THE MEANING OF SUNYA/ sunvatA The Pali Canon Non-Canonical Pali Buddhism Sanskrit Hinayana Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism 7. themAdhy\mikaassunyavAda Graduated Teaching of the Sunyatd Doctrine {\)Sunyatd as Relative Being (2) Sunyatd as Essenceless Being (3) Sunyatd as Non-Being (4) Sunyatd as Neither Being nor Non-Being (5) Sunyatd of Sunyatd Sunyatd and Prajndpdramitd 8. THE MADHYAMIKA DIALECTIC AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE From Bypassing Metaphysics through Its Outright Rejection to Its Total Transcendence The Madhyamika Rejects Metaphysics An .Omnibus Five-Member Dialectic Nihilistic Significance of the Dialectic The Logico-Linguistic Dilemma Total Transcendence of Metaphysics 9. NIHILISM AND ABSOLUTISM 'Tattva', Dharmatd, Tathatd, Bhiitakoli Meaning of Absolute Nihilism and Advaitism
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1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE BUDDHA'S MIND
The Categorical, the Allegorical, and the Equivocal in the
Buddha
Wooing and Jilting Metaphysics
The Conflicting Thrusts of the Metaphysical in the
Buddha
3. LOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Realism Culminating in Destructed Nihilism
Reaction to Realism Culminating in Absolute Nihilism
Tension between Absolute Nihilism and Absolutism in
the Madhyamika
Idealism, Absolutism, Docetism
Theo-Buddhism
The Soul's Hideouts
The Buddhist Mind Divided against Itself
4. CONFUCTING INTERPRETATIONS
The Nihilistic Interpretation
The Metaphysical-Absolutistic Interpretation
The Soteriological-Absolutistic Interpretation
The Linguistic-Analytic Interpretation
Harking Back to the non-Madhyamika Traditions
The Madhyamika's Confession
5. GERMS OF NIHILISM IN NON-BUDDHIST
TRADITIONS
The Vedic 'Asal'
The Nyaya-Vaisesika Asai-Kdrya
The Lokayata Negativism
Pre-Buddhistic Upholders of Four-Comered Negation
6. EVOLUTION OF THE MEANING OF SUNYA/
sunvatA
The Pali Canon
Non-Canonical Pali Buddhism
Sanskrit Hinayana Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism
7. themAdhy\mikaassunyavAda
Graduated Teaching of the Sunyatd Doctrine
{\)Sunyatd as Relative Being
(2) Sunyatd as Essenceless Being
(3) Sunyatd as Non-Being
(4) Sunyatd as Neither Being nor Non-Being
(5) Sunyatd of Sunyatd
Sunyatd and Prajndpdramitd
8. THE MADHYAMIKA DIALECTIC AND ITS
SIGNIFICANCE
From Bypassing Metaphysics through Its Outright
Rejection to Its Total Transcendence
The Madhyamika Rejects Metaphysics
An .Omnibus Five-Member Dialectic
Nihilistic Significance of the Dialectic
The Logico-Linguistic Dilemma
Total Transcendence of Metaphysics
9. NIHILISM AND ABSOLUTISM
'Tattva', Dharmatd, Tathatd, Bhiitakoli
Meaning of Absolute
Nihilism and Advaitism

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