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Khema of Great Wisdom from India खेमा Circa 563 BCE–483 BCE
Khema was a contemporary of the Buddha and was one of his foremost disciples. In this chapter, her life and contributions to Theravada Buddhism are...
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The Buddhist Spirit of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics
Buddhism Buddhism BuddhaBuddhism was founded in India in the late 600–500 BCE by Śākyamuni ([释迦牟尼], born 490 BCE, also known by the name “Siddharta...
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Approaching Discourses Between Three Persons About Modal Methodology and Summa Metaphysicorum
Around ten days ago, I intended having a talk with you protractedly and substantively, but gradually the enthusiasm melted down, that moment with its...
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Swords and diamonds—Thich Nhat Hanh on the law of identity
The Diamond Sutra is one of the earliest and most treasured of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and had a wide influence on the development of Zen...
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Silence and Eloquence: How Dōgen’s Dharma Match With Vimalakīrti Might Have Turned Out
The thesis of this essay is twofold. The first is that the real target of Dōgen’s famous critiques of Vimalakīrti isn’t the central character in the...
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Introduction
This chapter defines the meaning of “Buddhist ethics” and explains why the focus is placed on lay people. “Ethics” is concerned with morally good and...
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The Meaning of Identity Between Nirvān.ṇa and Samṁsāra in Nāgārjuna
This research attempts to evaluate the hermeneutic characteristics of catuṣkoṭi (tetralemma) in the ‘Nirvāṇa’ Chapter of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ...
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Jaina Narrative Refutations of Kumārila: Relative Chronology and the History of Jaina-Mīmām.sps h1.1sā Dialogues
Assigning a date to Kumārila is notoriously difficult. Kumārila’s dates are usually assigned through a relative chronology of Brahmanical and...
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The Catuṣkoṭi, the Saptabhaṇgī, and “Non-Classical” Logic
The Principles of Excluded Middle and Non-Contradiction are highly orthodox in Western philosophy. They are much less so in Indian philosophy....
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Featured Teachings in the Upāsakaśīla Sūtra
This chapter focuses on three featured teachings of the sutra. The first topic is “the factor of liberation.” The sutra advocates that a practitioner...
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The Gotra Theory in the Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā
The Yogācāra school of Buddhism is well known for maintaining that the sentient beings are divided by nature according to five different spiritual...
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On the Early Buddhist Attitude Toward Metaphysics
Buddhist scholars in the West broadly agree with the proposition that Buddhism has a philosophical tradition, in many respects comparable to Western...
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The Catuṣkoṭi, the Saptabhaṇgī, and “Non-Classical” Logic
The Principles of Excluded Middle and Non-Contradiction are highly orthodox in Western philosophy. They are much less so in Indian philosophy....
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Malabou’s Heidegger and Granularity
Catherine Malabou’s groundbreaking interpretation of Heidegger in her book The Heidegger Change provides an occasion to suggest strong parallels...
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Perennial Philosophy and the History of Mysticism
The purpose of this article is to expose a basic flaw at the root of perennialism as a method for studying mysticism—its distinction between...
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The Three Modes of the Buddha’s Dharma
With regards the crucial issue of the existence of the self, within canonical texts of the Buddhist Abhidharma schools we find passages that are...
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Popularization and Expansion of the Integration of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (The Ming and Qing Dynasties)
The Ming Dynasty—a transition period in the history of the relationship between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism—is divided into two stages. These...
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The Epistemology and Process of Buddhist Nondualism: The Philosophical Challenge of Egalitarianism in Chinese Buddhism
The evolving field of neuroscience provides a fresh perspective for understanding and clarifying the nondualistic epistemology of Buddhist...