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Buddhism and Language: A Study of Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism

Buddhism and Language: A Study of Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism

Cabezón, José Ignacio

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions

BuddhismGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0791419002
ISBN13: 9780791419007
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 1 1994
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

Taking language as its general theme, this book explores how the tradition of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophical speculation exemplifies the character of scholasticism.

Scholasticism, as an abstract and general category, is developed as a valuable theoretical tool for understanding a variety of intellectual movements in the history of philosophy of religion. The book investigates the Buddhist Scholastic theory and use of scripture, the nature of doctrine and its transcendence in experience, Mahayana Buddhist hermeneutics, the theory and practice of exegesis, and questions concerning the authority of sacred texts. It also deals with the Buddhist Scholastic theory of conceptual thought as the mirror of language, the Scholastic defense of logic and rationality as a method, as well as the role of language in the idealist and nominalist ontologies of the Mahayana. Finally, the author treats the question of ineffability and the silence of the Buddha from a new perspective.

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