A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy

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Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2013)
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_A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy_ is the most comprehensive single volume on the subject available; it offers the very latest scholarship to create a wide-ranging survey of the most important ideas, problems, and debates in the history of Buddhist philosophy. Encompasses the broadest treatment of Buddhist philosophy available, covering social and political thought, meditation, ecology and contemporary issues and applications Each section contains overviews and cutting-edge scholarship that expands readers understanding of the breadth and diversity of Buddhist thought Broad coverage of topics allows flexibility to instructors in creating a syllabus Essays provide valuable alternative philosophical perspectives on topics to those available in Western traditions

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B162.C66 2013

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9781118323915   9781118323885   1118323882   9781118323946   9780470658772   1119144663   9781119144663   0470658770
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Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism.James Blumenthal
Emptiness in Mahāyāna Buddhism.David Burton
Reason and Experience in Buddhist Epistemology.Christian Coseru
Comparative Refl ections on Buddhist Political Thought.David Cummiskey
Forms of Emptiness in Zen.Bret W. Davis
From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science.Jake H. Davis & Evan Thompson
Tibetan Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna.Douglas Duckworth
Buddhist Ethics and Western Moral Philosophy.William Edelglass
Introduction.Steven M. Emmanuel
The Huayan Metaphysics of Totality.Alan Fox
Language and Logic in Indian Buddhist Thought.Brendan S. Gillon
Buddhist Meditation.Charles Goodman
Ethical Thought in Indian Buddhism.Christopher W. Gowans
East Asian Buddhism.Ronald S. Green
Buddhist Perspectives on Gender Issues.Rita M. Gross
The Enlightened Sovereign.Georgios T. Halkias
Dukkha, Non‐Self, and the Teaching on the Four “Noble Truths”1.Peter Harvey
The Conditioned Co‐arising of Mental and Bodily Processes within Life and Between Lives1.Peter Harvey
Philosophy of Mind in Buddhism.Richard P. Hayes
Mind in Theravāda Buddhism.Maria Heim
On the Value of Speaking and Not Speaking.Steven Heine
Diversity Matters.Peter D. Hershock
A Survey of Early Buddhist Epistemology.John J. Holder
Buddhism and Environmental Ethics.Simon P. James
Compassion and the Ethics of Violence.Stephen Jenkins
“Spiritual Exercise” and Buddhist Epistemologists in India and Tibet.Matthew T. Kapstein
Buddhism and Biomedical Issues.Damien Keown
War and Peace in Buddhist Philosophy.Sallie B. King
Seeing Mind, Being Body.Anne Carolyn Klein
Candrakīrti on the Limits of Language and Logic.Karen C. Lang
The Philosophical Context of Gotama's Thought.Stephen J. Laumakis
The Voice of Another.Richard F. Nance
Between the Horns of Idealism and Realism.Graham Priest
Socially Engaged Buddhism.Christopher S. Queen
Character, Disposition, and the Qualities of the Arahats as a Means of Communicating Buddhist Philosophy in the Suttas.Sarah Shaw
Political Interpretations of the Lotus Sūtra.James Mark Shields
Theravāda.Andrew Skilton
Cognition, Phenomenal Character, and Intentionality in Tibetan Buddhism.Jonathan Stoltz
Buddhist Philosophy of Logic1.Koji Tanaka
Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Enlightenment.Tom J. F. Tillemans
Buddhist Perspectives on Human Rights.Karma Lekshe Tsomo
The Non‐Self Theory and Problems in Philosophy of Mind.Joerg Tuske
Practical Applications of the Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra and Madhyamaka in the Kālacakra Tantric Tradition.Vesna A. Wallace
Metaphysical Issues in Indian Buddhist Thought.Jan Westerhoff
The Three Truths in Tiantai Buddhism.Brook Ziporyn

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