...The aim of this chapter is to bring together various passages from Nāgārjuna’s works that refer to what appear to be Yogācāra ideas in order to gain some insight into what Nāgārjuna’s view of Yogācāra might have been. The chapter distinguishes three different views of the Madhyamaka-Yogācāra...

... of Taoist apophasis, and greater stresses on kataphasis and on phenomena. This chapter turns to the Mahayana and especially to the work of Nagarjuna. But first, since it has been already noted that the Buddha's concern was soteriological and therefore practical and not primarily philosophical, this chapter...

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... (universal compassion) and the bodhisattva path motivated by it. The contributions of Nagarjuna, a second-century monk from India, to the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) Buddhist philosophy are highlighted, along with the Heart Sutra and the broader Perfection of Wisdom...

...Jon Paul Sydnor’s essay, “The Dance of Emptiness,” compares two doctrines, Nagarjuna’s Buddhist doctrine of emptiness and Jürgen Moltmann’s Christian doctrine of the social Trinity. The essay is an attempt to produce constructive theology in relation to the doctrine of God that is relevant...

... of singularity to all sentient beings that traverse the presumed division between humans and nonhumans, and life and matter. Aligning Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna's notion of "dependent origination" to Althusser's concept of "over determination," Foucault's reconceptualization of Kant's notion...

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...If Buddhists really hold consequentialism and hard determinism, we would expect them to endorse utilitarian views of punishment and reject retributivism. We find this kind of view on the justification of punishment in Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland. Nagarjuna sees punishment...

...The book charts the development of Buddhist metaphysics, drawing on texts which include those of Nagarjuna and Dogen. The development is viewed through the lens of the Catuṣkoṭi At its simplest, and as it appears in the earliest texts, this is a logical/metaphysical principle which says that every...

... volition intention Buddhist usage dharmas Buddhist usage Two Truths the doctrine of narrative liberation Free will Madhyamaka Buddhism agency Nagarjuna Chandrakirti The problem of the freedom of the will appears to the modern Western sensibility as an obvious and natural problem, and is often...

...This chapter discusses the Adornment for Nagarjuna's Thought and the philosophy of Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna was an iconic figure in the history of Buddhism. In several sutras and tantras, the Buddha prophesies his advent, specifying in one text that he will appear four hundred years...

...This chapter employs genealogy of religion, critical race theory, and Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka Buddhism to call into question the way in which uninterrogated notions about “religion” and “religions” compromise theologies of religious diversity. At the heart of the argument is the claim that both...

... European fundamentalism Heart Sūtra literalism textual Mahāyāna Buddhism Nāgārjuna faith symbolism truth Black Elk contemplation history religion rituals stories Dalai Lama XIV historical studies science revelation history and impermanence interdependent origination...

... in response to the unique circumstances of the modern world and attempting to answer questions that simply could not have arisen in the time of the Buddha, Nāgārjuna, or Dōgen. Let us reask the question, then. Is the contemporary articulation of interdependence an unalloyed rendition of canonical...

...The hitch to Parmenides’s project is that people tend to believe their senses. This inspires compromises in which reality is permitted to change and have a population of more than one object. Anaxagoras asserts what Nagarjuna merely supposes: each object is composed of other objects without limit...