Book cover for Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation by Jay L Garfield

Empty Words

Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation

2001 Released
320 Pages
5-7 Hours
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Oxford University PressISBN 9780195146721

This volume collects Jay Garfield's essays on Madhyamaka, Yog-ac-ara, Buddhist ethics and cross-cultural hermeneutics. The first part addresses Madhyamaka, supplementing Garfield's translation of Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP, 1995), a foundational philosophical text by the Buddhist saint Nagarjuna. Garfield then considers the work of philosophical rivals, and sheds important light on the relation of Nagarjuna's views to other Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical positions.

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