Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation / Edition 1

by Jay L. Garfield

Overview

This volume collects Jay Garfield's essays on Madhyamaka, Yog-ac-ara, Buddhist ethics and cross-cultural hermeneutics. The first part addresses Madhyamaka, supplementing Garfield's translation of Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP, 1995), a foundational philosophical text by the Buddhist saint Nagarjuna. Garfield then considers the work of philosophical rivals, and sheds important light on the relation of Nagarjuna's views to other Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical positions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195146721
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/06/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

Smith College

Editorial Reviews

"It represents useful constructive philosophical engagement with Buddhist texts and offers much-needed theoretical and practical reflection on the project of cross-cultural philosophy itself."— The Journal of Religion

"Empty Words represents a serious engagement with Buddhist philosophy and contributes to the exegesis of Madhyamaka and Yogacara thought. More importantly, however, I think that it contributes to the further development of Buddhist philosophy as a continuing project"-Mario D'Amato, Hampshire College, Philosophy East & West

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