xix, 457 pages ; 24 cm; Includes translations of texts from various languages.; pt. 1. Metaphysics and ontology. Theravāda metaphysics and ontology : kaccānagotta (saṃyutta-nikāya) and abhidhammatthasaṅgaha / Noa Ronkin -- Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Fundamental verses of the Middle Way), chapter XXIV : examination of the Four Noble Truths ; Vasubandhu's Trisvabhāvanirdeśa (Treatise on the Three Natures) / Jay L. Garfield -- Sāntarakṣita's "neither-one-nor-many" argument from The ornament of the Middle Way (Madhyamakālaṃkara) : a classical Buddhist argument on the ontological status of phenomena / James Blumenthal -- Mipam Namgyel : the lion's roar affirming extrinsic emptiness / Matthew Kapstein -- Dushun's Huayan fajie guan men (Meditative approaches to the huayan dharmadhātu) / Alan Fox -- Dōgen's "mountains and waters as sūtras" (Sansui-kyō) / Graham Parkes -- Nishitani Keiji's "the standpoint of Zen, directly pointing to the mind" / Bret Davis -- pt. 2. Philosophy of language and hermeneutics. Sensation, inference, and language : Dignāga's Pramaṇasamuccaya / Richard Hayes -- Jn̋ānagarbha's verses On the distinction between the two truths / David Eckel -- Language and the ultimate : do Mādhyamikas make philosophical claims? : a selection from Khedrupjey's Stong thun chen mo (Great digest) / José I. Cabezón.; Zongmi's Yuanren lun (Inquiry into the origin of the human condition) : the hermeneutics of doctrinal classification / Peter Gregory -- Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō fascicles "Kattō" and "Ōsakusendaba" / Steven Heine -- Beyond awareness : Tōrei Enji's understanding of realization in the Treatise on the inexhaustible lamp of Zen, Chapter VI / Michel Mohr -- pt. 3. Epistemology. The approach to knowledge and truth in the Theravāda record of the discourses of the Buddha / Peter Harvey -- Dharmakīrti and dharmottara on the intentionality of perception : selections from Nyāyabindu (An epitome of philosophy) / Dan Arnold -- The role of knowledge of causation in Dharmakīrti's theory of inference : the Pramāṇa-vārttika / Brendan Gillon -- Yogācāra theories of the components of perception : the Buddhabhūmy-upadeśa / Dan Lusthaus -- Classification of non-authoritative cognitive processes (tshad min) in the Ngog and Sakya traditions / Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp -- Understanding the two truths : Tsongkhapa's ocean of reasoning : a great commentary on Nāgārjuna's "Mūlamadhyamakakārikā" / Jay L. Garfield -- The deluded mind as world and truth : epistemological implications of Tiantai doctrine and praxis in Jingxi Zhanran's Jingangpi and Zhiguan yili / Brook Ziporyn -- The presencing of truth : Dōgen's Genjōkōan / Bret Davis.; pt. 4. Philosophy of mind and the person. Theravāda philosophy of mind and the person : anatta-lakkhaṇa sutta, mahā-nidāna sutta, and milindapan̋ha / Peter Harvey -- Pudgalavāda doctrines of the person / Dan Lusthaus -- Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa : the critique of the Pudgalavādins' theory of persons / James Duerlinger -- Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa : the critique of the soul / Charles Goodman -- Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya VI.86-97: a Madhyamaka critique of Vijn̋ānavāda views of consciousness / C.W. Huntington, Jr. -- Śāntarakṣita's Tattvasaṃgraha: a Buddhist critique of the Nyāya view of the self / Matthew Kapstein -- Zhiyi's Great calming and contemplation : "contemplating mental activity as the inconceivable realm" / Hans-Rudolph Kantor -- "The mind is Buddha" : Pojo Chinul's secrets on cultivating the mind / Jin Park -- Nishida's conception of person / Gereon Kopf -- pt. 5. Ethics. Theravāda texts on ethics / Peter Harvey -- The Bodhisattva path : Śāntideva's bodhicaryāvatāra / William Edelglass -- Asaṅga's bodhisattvabhūmi : the morality chapter / Gareth Sparham -- Essentials of observing and violating Bodhisattva precepts : Wonhyo's non-substantial Māhāyana ethics / Jin Park -- Thich Nhat Hanh's interbeing: fourteen guidelines for engaged Buddhism ; Joanna Macy : the ecological self / William Edelglass -- Buddhist Feminist reflections / Karma Lekshe Tsomo.; The Buddhist philosophical tradition is vast, internally diverse, and comprises texts written in a variety of canonical languages. It is hence often difficult for those with training in Western philosophy who wish to approach this tradition for the first time to know where to start, and difficult for those who wish to introduce and teach courses in Buddhist philosophy to find suitable textbooks that adequately represent the diversity of the tradition, expose students to important primary texts in reliable translations, that contextualize those texts, and that foreground specifically philosophical issues. Buddhist Philosophy fills that lacuna. It collects important philosophical texts from each major Buddhist tradition. Each text is translated and introduced by a recognized authority in Buddhist studies. Each introduction sets the text in context and introduces the philosophical issues it addresses and arguments it presents, providing a useful and authoritative guide to reading and to teaching the text. The volume is organized into topical sections that reflect the way that Western philosophers think about the structure of the discipline, and each section is introduced by an essay explaining Buddhist approaches to that subject matter, and the place of the texts collected in that section in the enterprise. This volume is an ideal single text for an intermediate or advanced course in Buddhist philosophy, and makes this tradition immediately accessible to the philosopher or student versed in Western philosophy coming to Buddhism for the first time. It is also ideal for the scholar or student of Buddhist studies who is interested specifically in the philosophical dimensions of the Buddhist tradition.--Publisher website.; 

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