The madhyamika mind/ Harsh Narain

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