Who Wrote the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa? Reflections on an Enigmatic Text and Its Place in the History of Buddhist Philosophy
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DOI: 10.1007/s10781-017-9334-2
Abstract: In recent decades, scholars of Buddhist philosophy have frequently treated the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa (TSN), or “Teaching of the Three Natures,” attributed to Vasubandhu, as an authentic and authoritative representation of that celebrated thinker’s mature work within… read more here.
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Buddhist Philosophy and Scientific Naturalism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11841-021-00880-2
Abstract: This paper is a response to Christian Coseru, ‘The Middle Way to Reality: On Why I Am Not a Buddhist and Other Philosophical Curiosities.’ I address Coseru’s critical comments about naturalism, evolutionary psychology, scientific realism,… read more here.
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American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism, by Matthew Avery Sutton, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014, 480 pp., ISBN 978 0674048362, US$35 (hardcover)
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DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2016.1188631
Abstract: Buddhists have any grounds to enter into debate with other Indian philosophers (which they most definitely did). Thus the four truths need to be both particular philosophical perceptions in meditation and also understood as having… read more here.
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Buddhist Philosophy and the No-Self View
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DOI: 10.1353/pew.2017.0039
Abstract: A widespread interpretation of Buddhist thought concerning the self makes a prominent place for the claim that there is no self. This claim is motivated, in Buddhist philosophy, by the idea that if there were… read more here.
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