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Buddhism and Language, A Study of Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism
By: Cabezon, Jose Ignacio

Buddhism and Language


 
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Author: Cabezon, Jose Ignacio
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780791419007
Publication Date: 1994


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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 religious philosophy. 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.


Buddhism and Language, Jose Ignacio Cabezon, SUNY Press, Paperback, 299 pages, $29.95

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