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Tibetan Buddhist philosophy of mind and nature / by Douglas S. Duckworth.

Author/creator Duckworth, Douglas S., 1971-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[New York, NY] : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Descriptionviii, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Religion
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subject(s)
Contents Between construction and immediacy -- Emptying emptiness -- Emptiness enframed and unenframed -- Emptiness as performative and propositional -- Nonduality of Madhyamaka and Yogacara -- Ontology and phenomenology -- Critical ontology in Madhyamaka arguments -- Prasagika-Madhyamaka and radical deconstruction -- Phenomenological analyses in mind-only -- Self-awareness and the subject-object -- Types of self-awareness -- Mind and gnosis -- The critical gaze of Geluk Prasagika -- Concepts and the nonconceptual -- Language and the roots of knowledge -- Conception and perception -- Prasagika-Madhyamaka and conventional foundations -- Cultivation -- Radical phenomenology -- And the flesh became word: on the inversion and creation of value in Tantra -- Mahamudra phenomenology -- The great perfection -- The ground as fruition -- Appendix A: prologue to roar of the fearless lion -- Appendix B: excerpt from A Lamp completely illuminating the profound reality of interdependence -- Appendix C: the Buddhist philosophies section from the Concise summary of the philosophies of the wish-fulfilling treasury -- Appendix D: Mahamudra meditation: the essential nature of the completion stage.
Abstract "Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature is a philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Charting the different ways Buddhist traditions in Tibet configure the relationship between Madhyamaka and Mind-Only, Duckworth shows how these configurations inform the shape of distinct contemplative practices"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018010436
ISBN9780190883959 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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