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Madhyamika and Yogacara, Nagao, Gadjin M., Edited, Collated and Translated by L. S. Kawamura in Collaboration with G. M. Nagao, SUNY Press, Paperback, 304 pages, $29.95
Gadjin M. Nagao is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press.
Leslie S. Kawamura is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Acknowledgments
Author's Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Buddhist Subjectivity
2. An Interpretation of the Term "Samvrti " (Convention) in Buddhism
3. The Bodhisattva Returns to this World
4. The Silence of the Buddha and its Madhyamic Interpretation
5. What Remains in Sunyata : A Yogacara Interpretation of Emptiness
6. The Buddhist World View as Elucidated in the Three-nature Theory and Its Similies
7. Connotations of the Word Asraya (Basis) in the Mahayana-Sutralamkara
8. Usages and Meanings of Parinamana
9. Tranquil Flow of Mind: An Interpretation of Upeksa
10. On the Theory of Buddha Body (Buddha-kaya )
11. Logic of Convertibility
12. Ontology in Mahayana Buddhism
13. From Madhyamika to Yogacara : An Analysis of MMK, XXIV. 18 and ME I.1-2
14. Ascent and Descent: Two-Directional Activity in Buddhist Thought
15. Emptiness
16. Yogacara —A Reappraisal
Appendix—Sources of Essays
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Terms
Index of Tibetan Terms
Index of Chinese and Japanese Terms
Index of Sanskrit Terms
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