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The Tibetan Traditions of Guides to the Madhyamaka View (dbu ma’i lta khrid): The Schooling of View with Meditation

Journal of Indian Philosophy
This paper examines whether Mādhyamikas meditate, or if their insight into reality is purely a theoretical one. While traditional scholarship in India and Tibet is of a single voice in considering Madhyamaka fundamentally a meditative tradition ...
Jacob D. Fisher
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The Core Idea, Theoretical Doubts, and Re-Understanding of the Theory of Śūnyatā in Madhyamaka Philosophy

Religions
With the introduction of the theory of śūnyatā (emptiness 空) in Madhyamaka philosophy from India to China, Indian Buddhism and Chinese culture have achieved a historic new convergence in their understanding of emptiness.
Zeli Zhao
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Does causation entail emptiness? On a point of dispute between Abhidharma and Madhyamaka

Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Jan Westerhoff
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Nāgārjuna, Madhyamaka, and truth

Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Chris Rahlwes
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The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 321-341, June 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and ...
Jonathan C. Gold
wiley   +1 more source

Is consciousness reflexively self‐aware? A Buddhist analysis [PDF]

, 2018
This article examines contemporary Buddhist defences of the idea that consciousness is reflexively aware or self-aware. Call this the Self-Awareness Thesis.
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]

, 2017
This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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Objective Humanities, Reflexive Humanities

, 2022
Religious Studies Review, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 501-504, December 2022.
Jessica Zu
wiley   +1 more source

Reason and Experience in Buddhist Epistemology [PDF]

, 2013
Among the key factors that play a crucial role in the acquisition of knowledge, Buddhist philosophers list (i) the testimony of sense experience, (ii) introspective awareness (iii) inferences drawn from these directs modes of acquaintance, and (iv) some ...
Coseru, Christian
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The No Self View and the Meaning of Life [PDF]

, 2018
Several philosophers, both in Buddhist and Western philosophy, claim that the self does not exist. The no-self view may, at first glance, appear to be a reason to believe that life is meaningless.
Le Bihan, Baptiste
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