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Moonpaths - Ethics and Emptiness (Hardcover)
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Moonpaths - Ethics and Emptiness (Hardcover)
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The Mahayana tradition in Buddhist philosophy is defined by its
ethical orientation-the adoption of bodhicitta, the aspiration to
attain awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings. And
indeed, this tradition is known for its literature on ethics,
particularly such texts as Nagarjuna's Jewel Garland of Advice
(Ratnavali), Aryadeva's Four Hundred Verses (Catuhsataka), and
especially Santideva's How to Lead an Awakened Life
(Bodhicaryavatara) and its commentaries. All of these texts reflect
the Madhyamaka tradition of philosophy, and all emphasize both the
imperative to cultivate an attitude of universal care (karuna)
grounded in the realization of emptiness, impermanence,
independence and the absence of any self in persons or other
phenomena. This position is morally very attractive, but raises an
important problem: if all phenomena, including persons and actions,
are only conventionally real, can moral injunctions or principles
be binding, or does the conventional status of the reality we
inhabit condemn us to an ethical relativism or nihilism? In
Moonshadows, the international collective known as the Cowherds
addresses an analogous problem in the domain of epistemology and
argues that the Madhyamaka tradition has the resources to develop a
robust account of truth and knowledge within the context of
conventional reality. The essays explore a variety of ways in which
to understand important Buddhist texts on ethics and Mahayana moral
theory so as to make sense of the genuine force of morality. The
volume combines careful textual analysis and doctrinal exposition
with philosophical reconstruction and reflection, and considers a
variety of ways to understand the structure of Mahayana Buddhist
ethics.
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