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Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka a philosophical introduction


Free Download Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka : a philosophical introduction By Nāgārjuna; Westerhoff, Jan; Nāgārjuna, Nagarjuna, Nāgārjuna
2009 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0195375211 | EPUB | 17 MB
The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the ‘second Buddha.’ His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the concept of sunyata or ’emptiness.’ For Nagarjuna, all phenomena are without any svabhaba, literally ‘own-nature’ or ‘self-nature’, and thus without any underlying essence. In this book, Jan Westerhoff offers a systematic account of Nagarjuna’s philosophical position. He reads Nagarjuna in his own philosophical context, but he does not hesitate to show that the issues of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy have at least family resemblances to issues in European philosophy

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The Bhāgavata Purāna Selected Readings (Repost)


Free Download Ravi Gupta, Kenneth Valpey, "The Bhāgavata Purāna: Selected Readings"
English | 2016 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 0231169019, 0231169000 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text’s theological message focuses on devotion to Krishna or Vishnu, and its philosophical outlook is grounded in the classical traditions of Vedanta and Samkhya. No other Purana has inspired so much commentary, imitation, and derivation. The work has grown in vibrancy through centuries of performance, interpretation, worship, and debate and has guided the actions and meditations of elite intellectuals and everyday worshippers alike.

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