A Companion to Buddhist PhilosophySteven M. Emmanuel A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy is the most comprehensive single volume on the subject available; it offers the very latest scholarship to create a wide-ranging survey of the most important ideas, problems, and debates in the history of Buddhist philosophy.
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Contents
Conceptual Foundations | 11 |
Dukkha NonSelf and the Teaching on the Four Noble Truths Peter Harvey | 26 |
The Conditioned Coarising of Mental and Bodily Processes | 46 |
Major Schools of Buddhist Thought | 69 |
Indian Mahayana Buddhism | 86 |
Tibetan Mahayana and Vajrayana | 99 |
East Asian Buddhism | 110 |
Themes in Buddhist Philosophy | 127 |
Philosophy of Mind | 377 |
Philosophy of Mind in Buddhism | 395 |
Cognition Phenomenal Character and Intentionality in Tibetan | 405 |
The NonSelf Theory and Problems in Philosophy of Mind | 419 |
E Ethics and Moral Philosophy | 429 |
Character Disposition and the Qualities of the Arahats as a Means | 452 |
Compassion and the Ethics of Violence | 466 |
Buddhist Ethics and Western Moral Philosophy | 476 |
Interpretations and Comparisons | 151 |
Practical Applications of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra | 164 |
The Huayan Metaphysics of Totality | 180 |
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The Middle | 214 |
Reason and Experience in Buddhist Epistemology | 241 |
The Three Truths in Tiantai Buddhism | 256 |
Spiritual Exercise and Buddhist Epistemologists in India and Tibet | 270 |
The Epistemological | 290 |
Language and Logic | 307 |
Buddhist Philosophy of Logic | 320 |
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Philosophy | 349 |
Speech Responsiveness and Buddhist | 366 |
F Social and Political Philosophy | 491 |
Political Interpretations of the Lotus Sutra | 512 |
Emerging Patterns of Theory and Practice | 524 |
Asoka | 536 |
Buddhist Meditation | 553 |
Contemplative Practice and Buddhist | 572 |
Contemporary Issues and Applications | 599 |
Buddhism and Biomedical Issues | 613 |
War and Peace in Buddhist Philosophy | 631 |
Buddhist Perspectives on Human Rights | 651 |
Buddhist Reflections on the Meaning of Difference | 675 |
Further Reading | 693 |
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