Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way : The Essential Chapters from the Prasannapada of Candrakirti (Routledge Library Editions: Buddhism)

Sprung, Mervyn

Routledge（2008/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 302 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415461504
• DDC分類 181.04392

Full Description

Originally published in 1979.

The Prasannapada is the explanation of the versed aphorisms of Nagarjuna which are the first and basic statement of the Buddhist philosophy of the middle way. When first published, this volume was the first attempt, in any European language, to present all the essentials of this most radical of Buddhist philosophical works. Seventeen of its twenty-seven chapters have been chosen to give an integrated statement of every aspect of its arguments and conclusions.

Contents

Concern, Method and Assumptions of the Middle Way Philosophy



Attack on the Possibility of Knowledge



Enquiry into Conditions



Motion and Rest



Vision and the Other Sense Faculties



Material Objects and the Other Factors of Personal Existence



The Primal Elements or Character & Characteristic



Desire and Other Afflictions



The Agent Subject and His Doing



Self as Subject of Perception



Fire and Fuel



The Absence of Being in Things



Self-Existence



Self and the Way Things Really Are



Time



The Perfectly Realized One



The Basic Afflictions and the Four Misbeliefs



The Four Buddhist Truths



Nirvana