The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle: Essays on Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka

Contents......Page 8
foreword......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 20
1. Mathematical and linguistic Models in indian Thought
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2. Towards a Chronology of the Madhyamaka school*......Page 36
I. The Four Positions in Early Buddhist Thought......Page 60
II. The Uses of the Catuṣkoṭi in the Madhyamaka......Page 63
III. Conjunction and Negation of Opposed Termsin Vijñānavāda Definitions of Reality......Page 90
IV. Negation of Opposed Terms in the Descriptionof the Absolute in the Ratnagotravibhāga......Page 104
V. The Vātsīputrīya Conception of the Indeterminate......Page 107
Appendix I. Commentarial Interpretationsof Mūlamadhyamakakārikā xviii.8......Page 110
Appendix II. Some Modern Interpretations of the Catuṣkoṭi......Page 112
Appendix III. The Logical Error of Negation of the Antecedent and the Mūlamadhyamakakārikās......Page 132
Bibliography......Page 134
4. le Dharmadhātustava de Nāgārjuna*......Page 136
5. on the Authorship of some Works Ascribedto Bhā(va)viveka/Bhavya*......Page 168
6. The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika distinctionin the history of Madhyamaka Thought*......Page 182
7. Purport, implicature, and Presupposition: sanskrit abhiprāya and Tibetan dgongs pa /dgongs gzhi as hermeneutical Concepts*
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8. An indian source for the Tibetan hermeneutical Term dgongs gzhi, “intentional Ground”*......Page 236
9. some Reflections on the Place of Philosophyin the study of Buddhism*......Page 240
10. on the Tibetan historiography and doxography of the “Great debate of Bsam yas”*
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11. Autour du Lta ba’i khyad par de ye shes sde
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12. The Jo nang pas: A school of Buddhist ontologists According to the Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Doctrines (Grub mtha’ shel gyi me long)*
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13. A Karma Bka’ brgyud Work on the lineagesand Traditions of the indo-Tibetan dbu ma(Madhyamaka)*......Page 346
14. la Pensée Tibétaine*......Page 380
15. The indian and the indic in Tibetan Cultural history, and Tsong kha pa’s Achievement as a scholar and Thinker: An essay on the Concepts of“Buddhism in Tibet” and “Tibetan Buddhism”*
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english Glossary of selected Terms......Page 422
Publications by david seyfort Ruegg......Page 430
indexes......Page 442
About Wisdom......Page 466