PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The history of philosophy has been largely shaped by search for fixed grounds for knowledge, truth,  meaning and reality. However, this quest for fixity has been challenged by different philosophers and scholars in different periods of human history. Buddhist philosophy, particularly the Madhyamaka tradition, challenged the notions of permanent self, intrinsic essence, and independent existence through the doctrines…

Reference · Wikidata

elaboration and explanation of the delivered teachings of the Buddha

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of Buddhism. It comprises all the philosophical investigations and systems of rational inquiry that developed among various schools of Buddhism in ancient India following the parinirvāṇa of Gautama Buddha, as well as the further developments which followed the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia.

Book · DOAB

Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia offers a fascinating picture of the intricacies of regional and cross-regional networks and the complexity of Buddhist identities emerging across Asia.; Readership: All those interested in the history of Buddhism in East Asia and in East Asian Buddhist cultural practices, and anyone with an interest in the diffusion and transformation of Buddhism.

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

This paper begins with an examination of several theories of emotion in general—a ‘mixed theory’, an ‘attitudinal theory’, and a Buddhist ‘componential theory.’ I argue that the Buddhist theory has a theoretical advantage over these alternatives insofar as it avoids two ‘thin’ characterizations of emotions that exclude either affective or conative states from the concept. The Buddhist theory of emotions, I claim, ha…