Author : Roger-Pol Droit
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Droit traces the history of the Western understanding of Buddhism following the late 18th-century beginnings of the translation of the Buddhist canon. He reveals how major 19th-century Western philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Schlegel, Hegel, and others in fact misinterpreted the Buddha's teaching of nirvana as a life-detesting and negative annihilation of the the individual.
Author : Urs App
Publisher : UniversityMedia
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 3906000095
Pt. I Sixteenth century : Translation hazards -- The zen shock -- The Buddha's progress -- Chaos and the God of Zen -- Valignano's lectures and Catechism -- Buddhist philosophy -- God's Samadhi -- Pt. II Seventeenth century : Oriental Ur-philosophy (Rodriques) -- Pan-Asian religion (Kircher) -- Buddha's deathbed confession -- The common ground (Navarrete) -- Pan-Asian philosophy (Bernier) -- The merger (Le Clerc & Bernier) -- From Pagan to Oriental philosophy -- Philosophical archaeology (Burnet) -- Zoroaster's lie (Jacob Thomasius) -- Ur-Spinozism (Bayle).
Author : Alan Strathern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108477143
This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.
Author : James W. Heisig
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824824815
The past twenty years have seen the publication of numerous translations and commentaries on the principal philosophers of the Kyoto School, but so far no general overview and evaluation of their thought has been available, either in Japanese or in Western languages. James Heisig, a longstanding participant in these efforts, has filled that gap with Philosophers of Nothingness. In this extensive study, the ideas of Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji are presented both as a consistent school of thought in its own right and as a challenge to the Western philosophical tradition to open itself to the original contribution of Japan.
Author : Hans Waldenfels
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Dr. Armando Garcia
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1524570362
Anyone who has sat in meditation and studied the not-self doctrine has undoubtedly grappled with the question as to who or what exists if everything which can be experienced is not selfwhether the doctrine is pointing to some individual being, some true self, or if no inherent entity exists apart from the illusion of self. Surprisingly, despite two-and-a-half millennia, this question is still in dispute. In this book, I discuss the difficulties posed by a no-self interpretation of the not-self doctrine and apply insights gained from existential philosophy to reveal the nature of consciousness as not like anything else which can be experienced: a Not-Self, a Nothingness, and a Being.
Author : Keiji Nishitani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520043299
Author : Marcus Boon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022623343X
Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism’s global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on “nothing”—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory from Hegel and Marx through deconstruction, queer theory, and contemporary speculative philosophy. Through an elaboration of emptiness in both critical and Buddhist traditions; an examination of the problem of praxis in Buddhism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis; and an explication of a “Buddhaphobia” that is rooted in modern anxieties about nothingness, Nothing opens up new spaces in which the radical cores of Buddhism and critical theory are renewed and revealed.
Author : Ray Grigg
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1462907458
The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhism—an assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars. This is the first Zen book that links the long-noted philosophical similarities of Taoism and Zen. The author traces the evolution of Ch'an The The Tao of Zen is a fascinating book that will be read and discussed by anyone interested in both Taoism and Zen
Author : Bernard Faure
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1444356615
UNMASKING BUDDHISM Can we talk of Buddhism as a unified religion or are there many Buddhisms? Is Buddhism a religion of tolerance and pacifism as many people think? Is Buddhism a religion without god(s)? Or is it more of a philosophy than a religion? Renowned Buddhist scholar Bernard Faure answers these and other questions about the basic history, beliefs and nature of Buddhism in easy-to-understand language. It is an ideal introduction for anyone who has unanswered questions about one of the world’s largest and most popular religions.
