Emptiness, negation, and skepticism in Nāgārjuna and Sengzhao
This paper excavates the practice-oriented background and therapeutic significance of emptiness in the Madhyamaka philosophy attributed to Nāgārjuna and Sengzhao. Buddhist emptiness unravels experiential and linguistic reification through meditation and argumentation. The historical contexts and use...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2023
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Asian philosophy
Jahr: 2023, Band: 33, Heft: 2, Seiten: 125-144 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Negation
B Sengzhao B Skepticism B Nāgārjuna B Emptiness |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper excavates the practice-oriented background and therapeutic significance of emptiness in the Madhyamaka philosophy attributed to Nāgārjuna and Sengzhao. Buddhist emptiness unravels experiential and linguistic reification through meditation and argumentation. The historical contexts and uses of the word indicate that it is primarily a practical diagnostic and therapeutic concept. Emptiness does not lead to further views or truths but, akin to yet distinct from Ajñāna and Pyrrhonian skepticism, the suspension of assertion. This sense of emptiness as a practice can be traced in the intercultural transmission of Madhyamaka from Nāgārjuna, its paradigmatic philosopher, to Sengzhao 僧肇, its first pivotal indigenous Chinese representative. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2023.2179966 |