Materials for the Study of Aryadeva, Dharmapala and Candrakirti: The Catuhsataka of Aryadeva, Chapters XII and XIII with the commentaries of Dharmapala and Candrakirti; 2 Volumes (bound in 1)
Tillemans, Tom J.F.
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Book ID : 32543
ISBN-10 : 81-208-3112-8 / 8120831128
ISBN-13 : 978-81-208-3112-4 / 9788120831124
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2008
Edition : (First Indian Edition)
Language : English
Introduction, translation, notes, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese texts, indexes;
xl+290p., vi+188p., Abb., App., Bib., Index, 25 cm.
Aryadeva's Catuhsataka, along with the work of Nagarjuna, provided the philosophical basis for much of subsequent Mahayana Buddhism. Like Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarikas, it too was commented upon by Vijnanavada, or Idealist, thinkers as well as by those of the Madhyamaka, or "Middle Way" school. Thus the Catuhsataka was interpreted in very different, and yet philoslophically rich, fashioned by its sixth century commentators, Dharmapala and Candrakirti: the former saw it as only refuting ascriptions of imagined natures (parikalpitasvabhava) to phenomena while leaving real natures untouched; the latter interpreted Aryadeva's work as a thorough going rejection of all real intrinsic natures (svabhava) whatsoever. Tom Tillemans, in this reprint of his 1990 doctoral thesis, takes up the key themes in Dharmapala's and Candrakirti's philosophies and translates two chapters from their respective works on Catuhsataka. Both commentaries had a strong influence on subsequent Buddhism: Candrakirti's was important for Tibetan developments; Dharmapala's played a formative role in the increasingly marked differentiation between Vijnanavada and Madhyamaka philosophies.
