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As the title-page of Professor Westerhoff's "Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction" clearly implies, it is an examination not directly of Buddhist meditation or other religious practices, but an exploration of various Western approaches to their underlying philosophy in the thought of Mahayana's leading philosopher, Nagarjuna (ca. 150 - 250 c.e)., especially as revealed in his "Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way" (Mulamadhyamakakarika). He is the principal philosopher shared by the "Northern" (Mahayana) schools of Buddhism -- that is, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, Central Asia, and most of SE Asia. Westerhoff cites Andrew Tuck (1990) as dividing the history of Western interest in this area of Buddhist thought into three parts: (1) The phase of Theodore Stcherbatsky's "The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana" (1927), and T.R.V. Murti, "The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System" (1955) -- the "Kantian phase"; (2) the "analytic phase," beginning with Richard Robinson's 1957 article, "Some Logical Aspects of Nagarjuna's System," and (3) a "post-Wittgensteinian phase" of interpreting Nagarjuna via Frederick Streng's "Emptiness" and Chris Gudmunsen

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Author

Jan Westerhoff

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281987150

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Buddhism, Religion, Philosophy