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This volume collects Jay Garfield's essays on Madhyamaka, Yog-ac-ara, Buddhist ethics and cross-cultural hermeneutics. The first part addresses Madhyamaka, supplementing Garfield's translation of Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP, 1995), a foundational philosophical text by the Buddhist saint Nagarjuna. Garfield then considers the work of philosophical rivals, and sheds important light on the relation of Nagarjuna's views to other Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical positions.
| Pt. I | Madhyamaka | |
| 1 | Epoche and Sunyata: Scepticism East and West | 3 |
| 2 | Dependent Arising and the Emptiness of Emptiness: Why Did Nagarjuna Start with Causation? | 24 |
| 3 | Emptiness and Positionlessness: Do the Madhyamika Relinquish All Views? | 46 |
| 4 | Nagarjuna's Theory of Causality: Implications Sacred and Profane | 69 |
| 5 | Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought | 86 |
| Pt. II | Yogacara | |
| 6 | Three Natures and Three Naturelessnesses: Comments Concerning Cittamatra Conceptual Categories | 109 |
| 7 | Vasubandhu's Treatise on the Three Natures: A Translation and Commentary | 128 |
| 8 | Western Idealism through Indian Eyes: A Cittamatra Reading of Berkeley, Kant, and Schopenhauer | 152 |
| 9 | Sounds of Silence: Ineffability and the Limits of Language in Madhyamaka and Yogacara | 170 |
| Pt. III | Ethics and Hermeneutics | |
| 10 | Human Rights and Compassion: Toward a Unified Moral Framework | 187 |
| 11 | Buddhism and Democracy | 206 |
| 12 | The "Satya" in Satyagraha: Samdhong Rinpoche's Approach to Nonviolence | 220 |
| 13 | Temporality and Alterity - Dimensions of Hermeneutic Distance | 229 |
| 14 | Philosophy, Religions, and the Hermeneutic Imperative | 251 |
| Notes | 261 | |
| References | 291 | |
| Index | 299 |
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This volume collects Jay Garfield's essays on Madhyamaka, Yog-ac-ara, Buddhist ethics and cross-cultural hermeneutics. The first part addresses Madhyamaka, supplementing Garfield's translation of Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP, 1995), a foundational philosophical text by the Buddhist saint Nagarjuna. Garfield then considers the work of philosophical rivals, and sheds important light on the relation of Nagarjuna's views to other Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical ...