Format:
1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789004644717
Series Statement:
Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 6
Content:
In the past European scholars have tended to treat both Madhyamaka and YogÄcÄra as separate and fundamentally opposed trends in MahÄyÄna Buddhist thought. Drawing heavily on early textual evidence this work questions the validity of such a "MahÄyÄna schools" hypothesis. By down-playing the late commentorial traditions, the author attempts a general reappraisal of the epistemological and ontological writings of Nagarjuna, Asanga and Vasubandhu. He concludes that the overlap in all areas of doctrine is significant, but particularly with respect to the teachings on the levels of truth, the enlightened and unenlightened states, the status of language and the nature of reality. It is hoped that such investigations may provide the basis for a new theory on the proliferation of Indian MahÄyÄna Buddhism as an organic process of assimilation to new audiences, and specific contemporary problems, rather than in the more schismatic manner favoured by past researchers
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminary Material /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004094482
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Continuity of Madhyamaka and Yogācāra in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism Leiden : Brill, 1991 ISBN 9789004094482
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004644717
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