Nagarjuna is the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers following the Buddha himself. Throughout his works, Nagarjuna calls on us to completely abandon all our views. But how could anyone possibly do that? This book shows not only how Nagarjuna's truly radical teaching of "abelief" makes perfect sense within his Buddhist philosophy, but how it stands at the summit of his religious mission to care for all living beings. Rather than treating any one aspect of Nagarjuna's ideas in isolation, here he emerges as forging a single system of thought and practice, one that challenges the very ways in which we think about religion and philosophy.…mehr
Nagarjuna is the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers following the Buddha himself. Throughout his works, Nagarjuna calls on us to completely abandon all our views. But how could anyone possibly do that? This book shows not only how Nagarjuna's truly radical teaching of "abelief" makes perfect sense within his Buddhist philosophy, but how it stands at the summit of his religious mission to care for all living beings. Rather than treating any one aspect of Nagarjuna's ideas in isolation, here he emerges as forging a single system of thought and practice, one that challenges the very ways in which we think about religion and philosophy.
Rafal K. Stepien is Research Associate and European Research Council Principal Investigator within the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, and his publications include Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature. He has held the inaugural Berggruen Research Fellowship in Indian Philosophy at Oxford, the inaugural Cihui Foundation Faculty Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism at Columbia, an Exchange Scholarship in the Study of Religion at Harvard, and a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Buddhist Studies at Heidelberg University.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Emptiness Between the Lines: Reading Buddhist Philosophy of/and/as Religion * 0.0. The Dream is Over * 0.1. N g rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness * 0.2. Believing Between the Lines * 0.3. Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy * 0.4. Contexts and Texts * Chapter 1: Orienting Reason: A Religious Critique of Philosophizing N g rjuna * 1.1. The Unimaginative Question * 1.2. Unveiling the East * 1.3. Orientalizing Reasons * 1.4. Reimagining Religion and Philosophy * Chapter 2: Logical, Buddhological, Buddhist: A Critical Study of the Tetralemma * 2.1. Matters and Methods * 2.2. The Logical Tetralemma * 2.3. The Buddhological Tetralemma * 2.4. The Buddhist Tetralemma * Chapter 3: N g rjuna's Tetralemma: Tetr letheia and Tath gata, Utterance and Anontology * 3.1 The Dilemma of the Tetralemma * 3.2 The Exhaustive Tetralemma * 3.3 Tetralemma as Tetr letheia * 3.4 Tetr letheia as Tath gata * 3.5 Utterance and Anontology * 3.6 Tetralemma and No-Teaching * 3.7 Silencing Nothing * Chapter 4: Abandoning All Views: A Buddhist Critique of Belief * 4.1. Views on Abandoning Views * 4.2. N g rjuna's Abandoning Views * 4.3. Abandoning N g rjuna's Views * Chapter 5: All-Embracing Emptiness: N g rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness * 5.1. The Abandonment of Ethics? * 5.2. The Ethics of Abandonment * 5.3. From Ethics to Eirenics * 5.4. Abandoning All, Embracing All * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Emptiness Between the Lines: Reading Buddhist Philosophy of/and/as Religion * 0.0. The Dream is Over * 0.1. N g rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness * 0.2. Believing Between the Lines * 0.3. Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy * 0.4. Contexts and Texts * Chapter 1: Orienting Reason: A Religious Critique of Philosophizing N g rjuna * 1.1. The Unimaginative Question * 1.2. Unveiling the East * 1.3. Orientalizing Reasons * 1.4. Reimagining Religion and Philosophy * Chapter 2: Logical, Buddhological, Buddhist: A Critical Study of the Tetralemma * 2.1. Matters and Methods * 2.2. The Logical Tetralemma * 2.3. The Buddhological Tetralemma * 2.4. The Buddhist Tetralemma * Chapter 3: N g rjuna's Tetralemma: Tetr letheia and Tath gata, Utterance and Anontology * 3.1 The Dilemma of the Tetralemma * 3.2 The Exhaustive Tetralemma * 3.3 Tetralemma as Tetr letheia * 3.4 Tetr letheia as Tath gata * 3.5 Utterance and Anontology * 3.6 Tetralemma and No-Teaching * 3.7 Silencing Nothing * Chapter 4: Abandoning All Views: A Buddhist Critique of Belief * 4.1. Views on Abandoning Views * 4.2. N g rjuna's Abandoning Views * 4.3. Abandoning N g rjuna's Views * Chapter 5: All-Embracing Emptiness: N g rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness * 5.1. The Abandonment of Ethics? * 5.2. The Ethics of Abandonment * 5.3. From Ethics to Eirenics * 5.4. Abandoning All, Embracing All * Bibliography * Index
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