The madhyamika mind/
Harsh Narain
- Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1997.
- 173 p. .
1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE BUDDHA'S MIND The Categorical, the Allegorical, and the Equivocal in the Buddha Wooing and Jilting Metaphysics The Conflicting Thrusts of the Metaphysical in the Buddha 3. LOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS Realism Culminating in Destructed Nihilism Reaction to Realism Culminating in Absolute Nihilism Tension between Absolute Nihilism and Absolutism in the Madhyamika Idealism, Absolutism, Docetism Theo-Buddhism The Soul's Hideouts The Buddhist Mind Divided against Itself 4. CONFUCTING INTERPRETATIONS The Nihilistic Interpretation The Metaphysical-Absolutistic Interpretation The Soteriological-Absolutistic Interpretation The Linguistic-Analytic Interpretation Harking Back to the non-Madhyamika Traditions The Madhyamika's Confession 5. GERMS OF NIHILISM IN NON-BUDDHIST TRADITIONS The Vedic 'Asal' The Nyaya-Vaisesika Asai-Kdrya The Lokayata Negativism Pre-Buddhistic Upholders of Four-Comered Negation 6. EVOLUTION OF THE MEANING OF SUNYA/ sunvatA The Pali Canon Non-Canonical Pali Buddhism Sanskrit Hinayana Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism 7. themAdhy\mikaassunyavAda Graduated Teaching of the Sunyatd Doctrine {\)Sunyatd as Relative Being (2) Sunyatd as Essenceless Being (3) Sunyatd as Non-Being (4) Sunyatd as Neither Being nor Non-Being (5) Sunyatd of Sunyatd Sunyatd and Prajndpdramitd 8. THE MADHYAMIKA DIALECTIC AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE From Bypassing Metaphysics through Its Outright Rejection to Its Total Transcendence The Madhyamika Rejects Metaphysics An .Omnibus Five-Member Dialectic Nihilistic Significance of the Dialectic The Logico-Linguistic Dilemma Total Transcendence of Metaphysics 9. NIHILISM AND ABSOLUTISM 'Tattva', Dharmatd, Tathatd, Bhiitakoli Meaning of Absolute Nihilism and Advaitism