Madhyamaka Schools in India: A Study of the Madhyamaka Philosophy and of the Division of the System into the Prasangika and Svatantrika Schools
Santina, Peter Della
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Book ID : 8704
ISBN-10 : 81-208-0153-9 / 8120801539
ISBN-13 : 978-81-208-0153-0 / 9788120801530
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2008
Edition : (Reprint)
Language : English
xxiii, 242p., App., Bib., Index, 23 cm. (First pub. in 1986)
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. The Madhyamaka Philosophy 2. Indian Logic and the Madhyamaka System 3. The Origin of the Division into the Prasangikas and Svatantrika Schools 4. The Development of the Controversy 5. The Development of the Controversy in Tibet 6. The Significance of these Interpretations Assessed 7. The Vigrahavyavartini and the Exposition of the Status of the Valid Instruments of cognition 8. The Refutation of Origination 9. The Refutation of the Valid Instruments of cognition 10. The Refutation of Origination 11. The Refutation of the First Alternative 12. The Controversy between Bhavaviveka and Candrakirti 13. Bhavaviveka's Independent Syllogism Criticized 14. The Refutation of the Second Alternative 15. The Refutation of the Third Alternative 16. The Refutation of the last Alternative 17. The Refutation of the Second Alternative : A Final Look at the Differences between the
DESCRIPTION
This Volume traces the development of one of the most divisive debates in Buddhist philosophy in which leading parts were taken by Nagarjuna, Bhavaviveka and Candrakirti. The interesting debate between the Prasangikas and Svatantrikas has thus far received comparatively little attention. It has been largely assumed that the division between the two schools occurred as a result of the disagreements on the essentials of the Madhyamaka philosophical view. In the present work the author argues that the school split not over philosophy but over forensic methodology or, in other words, over the way in which the philosophy of emptiness was to be communicated to and vindicated for others. He draws substantially on the Tibetan sources to prove his viewpoint. He also makes use of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhya makakarika and Candrakirti's Prasannapadanamadhyamakavrtti. The volume extends not only the current understanding of the Madhyamaka system, but also offers a new and eminently reasonable interpretation of the nature of the divisions between the Prasangikas and Svatantrikas.
