Blackwell Companions to Philosophy / A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy

Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xviii List of Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 Steven M. Emmanuel Part I Conceptual Foundations 11 1 The Philosophical Context of Gotama's Thought 13 Stephen J. Laumakis 2 Dukkha, Non-Self, and the Teaching on the Four "Noble Truths" 26 Peter Harvey 3 The Conditioned Co-arising of Mental and Bodily Processes within Life and Between Lives 46 Peter Harvey Part II Major Schools of Buddhist Thought 69 4 Theravâda 71 Andrew Skilton 5 Indian Mahâyâna Buddhism 86 James Blumenthal 6 Tibetan Mahâyâna and Vajrayâna 99 Douglas Duckworth 7 East Asian Buddhism 110 Ronald S. Green Part III Themes in Buddhist Philosophy 127 A. Metaphysics 129 8 Metaphysical Issues in Indian Buddhist Thought 129 Jan Westerhoff 9 Emptiness in Mahâyâna Buddhism: Interpretations and Comparisons 151 David Burton 10 Practical Applications of the Perfection of Wisdom Stra and Madhyamaka in the Kâlacakra Tantric Tradition 164 Vesna A. Wallace 11 The Huayan Metaphysics of Totality 180 Alan Fox 12 Forms of Emptiness in Zen 190 Bret W. Davis 13 Between the Horns of Idealism and Realism: The Middle Way of Madhyamaka 214 Graham Priest B. Epistemology 223 14 A Survey of Early Buddhist Epistemology 223 John J. Holder 15 Reason and Experience in Buddhist Epistemology 241 Christian Coseru 16 The Three Truths in Tiantai Buddhism 256 Brook Ziporyn 17 "Spiritual Exercise" and Buddhist Epistemologists in India and Tibet 270 Matthew T. Kapstein 18 Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Enlightenment: The Epistemological Issues in a Key Debate 290 Tom J. F. Tillemans C. Language and Logic 307 19 Language and Logic in Indian Buddhist Thought 307 Brendan S. Gillon 20 Buddhist Philosophy of Logic 320 Koji Tanaka 21 Candrakîrti on the Limits of Language and Logic 331 Karen C. Lang 22 On the Value of Speaking and Not Speaking: Philosophy of Language in Zen Buddhism 349 Steven Heine 23 The Voice of Another: Speech, Responsiveness, and Buddhist Philosophy 366 Richard F. Nance D. Philosophy

Steven M. Emmanuel is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Logic of Revelation (1996) and editor of two previous volumes with Blackwell: The Guide to the Modern Philosophers: From Descartes to Nietzsche (2001) and Modern Philosophy: An Anthology (2002). In 2008, he produced and directed an award-winning documentary film entitled Making Peace with Viet Nam .

"All in all, this collection of essays is an invaluable resource on Buddhism, particularly for Western students. Each essay was written with great sophistication, rigor, and insight, and all are highly readable. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." ( Choice , 1 November 2013)