Why Chinese Buddhist Philosophy?

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-35
Author(s):  
Brook Ziporyn
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy

Reflections on Eviatar Shulman’s Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 293-300
Author(s):  
Peter Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The Buddha

Reflections on Eviatar Shulman’s Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception

Symposium on Suffering, the Self, and Self-conceptions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Aviv ◽  
Bryce Huebner ◽  
Emily McRae ◽  
Tad Zawidzki
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
American Philosophical Association

The papers that are included in this symposium where initially presented during a session of the International Society for Buddhist Philosophy, which was held at the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore on January 4, 2017. And over the course of the next year, these papers were revised to be included in a special issue of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. That special issue was never published; and since the papers were written as symposium, we have decided to present them together here.

Madhyamaka

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Westerhoff
Keyword(s):  
Prima Facie ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Philosophical Project

The chapter begins by presenting a general overview of the rise of the Mahāyāna and its relation to the main schools of Buddhist philosophy associated with it, Madhyamaka and Yogācāra. This is followed by an introduction to the Madhyamaka school proper, focusing on the life and works of its founder, Nāgārjuna. The third section of the chapter examines the foundational sūtras of the Madhyamaka school, the Prajñāpāramitā or Perfection of Wisdom texts, focusing on their criticism of the Abhidharma philosophical project, their comprehensive illusionism, and their prima facie acceptance of contradictions. This is followed by an account of how these themes play a key role in the Madhyamaka system as set out by Nāgārjuna. The chapter then turns to examining the philosophical contributions of major Madhyamaka thinkers such as Buddhapālita, Bhāviveka, Candrakīrti, Śāntarakṣita, and Kamalaśīla. The chapter concludes by a discussion of the relation between Madhyamaka and Nyāya.

Buddhist Idealism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Finnigan
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy

This chapter surveys some of the most influential Buddhist arguments in defense of idealism. It begins by clarifying the central theses under dispute and rationally reconstructs arguments from four major Buddhist figures in defense of some or all of these theses. It engages arguments from Vasubandhu’s Viṃśikā and Triṃśikā; Dignāga’s Ālambanaparīkṣā; the sahopalambhaniyama inference developed by Dharmakīrti; and Xuanzang’s logical argument. It aims to clarify what is being argued and motivate these arguments in terms of their presuppositions. These presuppositions range from views about the nature of mind and metaphysics to epistemology and logic. By making this context explicit, this chapter introduces central ideas in Buddhist philosophy and suggests ways in which they were mobilized in support of an idealist conclusion.

scholarly journals Founder’s Prize for New Scholars 2016: “Looking Down Time’s Telescope at Myself”: Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell’s Fictional Worlds

KronoScope ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Rose Harris-Birtill
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temporal Model ◽  
Global Futures ◽  
Future Consequences

AbstractThis essay explores the trope of reincarnation across the works of British author David Mitchell (b. 1969) as an alternative approach to linear temporality, whose spiralling cyclicality warns of the dangers of seeing past actions as separate from future consequences, and whose focus on human interconnection demonstrates the importance of collective, intergenerational action in the face of ecological crises. Drawing on the Buddhist philosophy of samsara, or the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, this paper identifies links between the author’s interest in reincarnation and its secular manifestation in the treatment of time in his fictions. These works draw on reincarnation in their structures and characterization as part of an ethical approach to the Anthropocene, using the temporal model of “reincarnation time” as a narrative strategy to demonstrate that a greater understanding of generational interdependence is urgently needed in order to challenge the linear “end of history” narrative of global capitalism.

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