To See the Buddha, Malcolm David

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To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness
By: Eckel, Malcolm David

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Author: Eckel, Malcolm David
ISBN: 9780691037738

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Malcolm David Eckel takes us on a contemporary quest to discover the essential meaning behind the Buddha's many representations. Eckel's bold thesis proposes that the proper understanding of Buddhist philosophy must be thoroughly religious - an understanding revealed in Eckel's new translation of the philosopher Bhavaviveka's major work, The Flame of Reason . Eckel shows that the dimensions of early Indian Buddhism - popular art, conventional piety, and critical philosophy - all work together to express the same religious yearning for the fullness of emptiness that Buddha conveys.

To See the Buddha, Malcolm David Eckel, Princeton University Press, Paperback, 262 pages, $42.00


	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Story of the Asuras' Cave	11
Ch. 2	The Structure of Bhavaviveka's Thought	22
	Philosophy as a Cognitive Quest	23
	The Three-Part Structure of Bhavaviveka's Argument	29
	Points of Transition from One Stage in the Argument to Another	42
	Bhavaviveka's Ironical Point of View	44
Ch. 3	Interpreting the Signs of the Buddha	51
	Hsuan-tsang's Encounter with the Indian Landscape	51
	The Buddha as a Place Where an Absence Is Present	65
Ch. 4	The Diachronic Dimension of the Buddha's Absence	73
	The Buddha's Previous Vows	74
	The Buddha's Manifestations	84
	The Buddha's Sustaining Power	90
Ch. 5	The Synchronic Dimension of the Buddha's Absence	95
	The Dharma Body	97
	The Eternal Buddha	109
Ch. 6	Bhavaviveka's Theory of the Buddha	114
	The Ultimate Buddha: A Negative Version of the Two-Body Theory	115
	The Conventional Buddha: A Positive Version of the Two-Body Theory	122
	The Three-Body Theory	125
Ch. 7	Buddhahood and the Language of the Senses	131
	Hsuan-tsang's Encounter with the Pirates	131
	Bhavaviveka and the Philosopher's Eyes	137
	Structural Similarities Between Different Kinds of Vision	141
	The Ranking of the Different Senses	147
	Translation: Bhavaviveka's Account of the Buddha in Chapter III of The Verses on the Essence of the Middle Way with the Commentary in The Flame of Reason	153
1	The Ultimate Buddha	158
2	The Bodhisattva Path	172
3	The Conventional Buddha	189
	Notes	197
	Bibliography	242
	Index	259

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