| Description |
1 online resource (142 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Text -- Commentary -- The status of the theory of emptiness -- The Madhyamaka dilemma -- The sound analogy -- The no-thesis view -- Epistemology -- Establishing the epistemic instruments -- The fire analogy -- The epistemic instruments as self-established -- Epistemic instruments and their objects -- The father-son analogy -- Summary -- Intrinsically good things -- Names without objects -- Extrinsic substances -- Negation and existence -- The mirage analogy -- Emptiness and reasons -- Negation and temporal relations |
| Summary |
Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is one of the most important Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical texts. Jan Westerhoff offers a new translation, reflecting the best current philological research & all available editions, adding his own commentary on the text |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Sanskrit |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nāgārjuna, active 2nd century. Vigrahavyāvartanī.
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Nagardschuna. Vigrahavyāvartanī. |
| SUBJECT |
Vigrahavyāvartanī (Nāgārjuna) fast |
| Subject |
Mādhyamika (Buddhism) -- Early works to 1800
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
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Madhyamika.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Westerhoff, Jan
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| ISBN |
9780199745456 |
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0199745455 |
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9780199777365 |
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0199777365 |
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