Karma Phuntsho

Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness (eBook, ePUB)

To Be, Not to Be or Neither

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An introductory text to the Buddhist philosophy of Emptiness, it explores a number of themes in connection with the concept of Emptiness, a highly technical but very central notion in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134262465
• Artikelnr.: 42636006

Autorenporträt

Karma Phuntsho was trained to be a Khenpo, a Tibetan monastic abbot, for about a dozen years during which he studied, practiced and taught Buddhism in several monasteries in Bhutan and India. In 2003, he received a PhD in Oriental Studies from Balliol College, Oxford. He currently works at the University of Cambridge and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris as post-doctoral researcher specializing in Buddhism and Bhutan. His main interest lies in the preservation and promotion of Buddhist and Bhutanese culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Emptiness: Its Soteriological, Doctrinal, Ontological and
Historical Significance in Buddhism 2. The Big Fuss about Emptiness: An
Outline of the History of Debates on Emptiness 3. What is Negated by
Ultimate Analysis? Debates on the Delimitation of the Mahyamika Negandum 4.
The Fully Empty: Mipham's Theory of the Ultimate Reality 5. Is Emptiness
Knowable and Effable? Conclusion