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The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: The Oxford History of Philosophy
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Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in
the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist
philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the
composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the
common era and continues up to the time of Dharmakirti in the sixth
century. This period was characterized by the development of a
variety of philosophical schools and approaches that have shaped
Buddhist thought up to the present day: the scholasticism of the
Abhidharma, the Madhyamaka's theory of emptiness, Yogacara
idealism, and the logical and epistemological works of Dinnaga and
Dharmakirti. The book attempts to describe the historical
development of these schools in their intellectual and cultural
context, with particular emphasis on three factors that shaped the
development of Buddhist philosophical thought: the need to spell
out the contents of canonical texts, the discourses of the
historical Buddha and the Mahayana sutras; the desire to defend
their positions by sophisticated arguments against criticisms from
fellow Buddhists and from non-Buddhist thinkers of classical Indian
philosophy; and the need to account for insights gained through the
application of specific meditative techniques. While the main focus
is the period up to the sixth century CE, Westerhoff also discusses
some important thinkers who influenced Buddhist thought between
this time and the decline of Buddhist scholastic philosophy in
India at the beginning of the thirteenth century. His aim is that
the historical presentation will also allow the reader to get a
better systematic grasp of key Buddhist concepts such as non-self,
suffering, reincarnation, karma, and nirvana.
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