Nāgārjuna's Reason sixty with Chandrakīrti's Reason sixty commentary

by Nagarjuna

Other authorsRobert A. F. Thurman (Translator), Chandrakirti (Commentary), Joseph John Loizzo

Hardcover, 2007

Series

Publication

Imprint: New York : American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, co-published with Columbia University's Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, 2007. Context: . Series: Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences. Responsibility: Original work by Narajuna with commentary by Chandrakirti. Translated from the Tibetan with introduction and annotation by Joseph John Loizzo and the AIBS Translation Team; edited by Robert A.F. Thurman, Thomas F. Yarnall, and Paul G. Hackett. Language: Text in English and Tibetan. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxix, 434 pages ; 24 cm. Features: Includes appendices, bibliography, glossary, index

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GT-B-Tb / Nagar

Barcode

BK-08647

ISBN

9780975373422

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Description: The Reason Sixty is the most concise philosophical work by the second-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna. It is one of that master's works most often cited by Centrist (Madhyamaka) commentators, and it is included in the Sixfold Canon of Reason (rigs tshogs drug) which forms the textual basis for Centrist studies in the Tibetan philosophical curriculum. Standing midway between his other masterpieces on philosophy and religion, in the Reason Sixty Nagarjuna describes the central thrust of his therapeutic philosophy of language - the elimination of cognitive bias and affective resistances to the gradual cultivation of nondualistic wisdom and compassion.

The seventh-century Centrist master Chandrakirti, concerned with applying his language therapeutic method to define the social epistemology of Centrism, likewise links the critical hermeneutic-pedagogy and the practical therapeutic-anthropology of his other works in his acclaimed Reason Sixty Commentary.

Includes detailed introductory essays, annotated translations, critical Tibetan editions, trilingual glossary, intellectual-historical and biographical tables, bibliography, and index. -- from jacket

Table of Contents: The other Chandrakīrti : a corrective, contextual, textual study
Materials for the study of the Reason Sixty and its commentary
Self-correction in the Reason Sixty Commentary
Translations
Critical editions of the Tibetan texts

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Physical description

xxix, 434 p.; 24 cm

Description

The Reason Sixty is the most concise philosophical work by the second-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna. It is one of that master's works most often cited by Centrist (Madhyamaka) commentators, and it is included in the Sixfold Canon of Reason (rigs tshogs drug) which forms the textual basis for Centrist studies in the Tibetan philosophical curriculum. Standing midway between his other masterpieces on philosophy and religion, in the Reason Sixty Nagarjuna describes the central thrust of his therapeutic philosophy of language - the elimination of cognitive bias and affective resistances to the gradual cultivation of nondualistic wisdom and compassion. The seventh-century Centrist master Chandrakirti, concerned with applying his language therapeutic method to define the social epistemology of Centrism, likewise links the critical hermeneutic-pedagogy and the practical therapeutic-anthropology of his other works in his acclaimed Reason Sixty Commentary. Includes detailed introductory essays, annotated translations, critical Tibetan editions, trilingual glossary, intellectual-historical and biographical tables, bibliography, and index. Published by American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS)… (more)