Resurrecting Candrakirti

Vose, Kevin A[lan]:
Resurrecting Candrakīrti : disputes in the Tibetan creation of Prāsaṅgika / Kevin A. Vose. - Boston : Wisdom Publications, 2009. - x, 293 S. - (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)
ISBN 978-0-86171-520-6 / 0-86171-520-9
US$ 34,95
Hochschulschrift. Teilw. zugl.: Charlottesville, Univ. of Virginia, Diss., 2005 unter dem Titel: The birth of Prāsaṅgika : a Buddhist movement in India and Tibet

Beschreibung
The seventh-century Indian master Candrakīrti lived a life of relative obscurity, only to have his thoughts and writings rejuvenated during the Tibetan transmission of Buddhism. Since then, Candrakīrti has been celebrated as offering the most thorough and accurate vision of Nāgārjuna's view of emptiness which, in turn, most fully represents the final truth of the Buddha's teaching. Candrakīrti's emptiness denies the existence of any "nature," or substantial, enduring essence in ourselves or in the phenomenal world while avoiding the extreme view of nihilism. In this view, our false belief in nature is at the root of our ignorance and is the basis for all mental and emotional pain and disturbance. For many Tibetan scholars, only Candrakīrti's Middle Way entirely overcomes our false belief in inherent identity and, consequently, alone overcomes ignorance, delivering freedom from the cycle of uncontrolled death and rebirth known as saṃsāra.
   Candrakīrti's writings have formed the basis for Madhyamaka study in all major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. In Resurrecting Candrakīrti, Kevin Vose presents the reader with a thorough presentation of Candrakīrti's rise to prominence and the further elaborations the Tibetans have made on his presentation of emptiness. By splitting Madhyamaka into two sub-schools, namely the Svātantrika and Prāsaṅgika, the Tibetans became pioneers in understanding reality, and created a new way to define differences in interpretation. Resurrecting Candrakīrti provides the historical and philosophical context necessary to understand both Madhyamaka and its importance to Tibetan Buddhist thought.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments. ix
Introduction. 1
   - The Twelfth-Century Candrakirti. 4
   - School, Movement, Doxographical Category. 10
1. The Indian Discovery of Candrakīrti. 17
   - Reviving Candrakīrti's Critique of Ultimate Valid Cognition. 21
   - Candrakīrti and Tantra. 27
   - Resurrecting Candrakīrti, Creating Prāsaṅgika. 36
2. The Birth of Prāsaṅgika. 41
   - Territory and Translations in Tibet's Later Diffusion. 42
   - Ngok and Patsab: Textual Ownership and Competing Communities. 45
   - Texts in Conflict and the Scholastic Solution. 52
   - Conclusion: Prāsaṅgika and Svātantrika Schools. 60
3. Taxonomies of Ignorance, Debates on Validity. 63
   - Mistaken Mind, Deceptive Mind. 66
   - Jayānanda's Two Truths. 71
   - Levels of Validity. 78
   - Conclusion: Competing Schools of Philosophy, Unified Religious Vision. 82
4. What Can Be Said About the Ineffable? 87
   - The Prāsaṅgika Ultimate. 88
   - Chapa's Ultimate. 92
   - Almost the Ultimate. 99
   - Conclusion: The Importance of the Ultimate. 110
5. Prāsaṅgika vs. Svātantrika on Non-Abiding Nirvāṇa. 111
   - "Knowing" the Ultimate: Transformation in the Absence of Mind. 112
   - Making a Blind Buddha See. 120
   - Svātantrika Solutions to Buddha Vision. 122
   - Conclusion: Madhyamaka Nirvāṇa. 132
Conclusion: The Prāsaṅgika victory. 135
Materials: The arguments against Prasaṅgas and for Svatantra inference in Chapa Chokyi Senge's Compilation of the Three Mādhyamikas from the East. 139
   - Refuting a Real Entity. 141
     1. Debunking that consequences negate the object of negation. 141
     2. The way of refuting proliferations through inference. 166
Notes. 171
Bibliography. 243
Index. 261
About the author. 292

Autor
KEVIN VOSE is a professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from the University of Virginia. His research examines the interplay of late-Indian and early-Tibetan Madhyamaka and the formation of Tibetan scholasticism. Profile page.

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