Tsong khapa: Ocean of Reasoning

Name: Tsong khapa: Ocean of Reasoning
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 978-0-19-514733-9
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A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

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Tsong khapa (14th-century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. Ocean of Reasoning is the most extensive and perhaps the deepest extant commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way), and it can be argued that it is impossible to discuss Nagarjuna's work in an informed way without consulting it. It discusses alternative readings of the text and prior commentaries and provides a detailedexegesis, constituting a systematic presentation of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy. Jay Garfield and Ngawang Samten bring the requisite skills to the difficult task of translating this work, combining between them expertise in Western and Indian philosophy, and fluency in Tibetan, Sanskrit, andEnglish. The resulting translation of this important text will not only be a landmark contribution to the scholarship of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, but will serve as a valuable companion volume to Jay Garfield's highly successful translation of The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP 1995, 15,216 sold to date).

ISBN: 978-0-19-514733-9

GTIN: 9780195147339

Über den Autor Tsong khapa

Jay L. Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College and Director of the Five Colleges Tibetan Studies in India Program, and also teaches at the Universities of Massachusetts and Melbourne and the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in India. He is the author of The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP 1995), which is the standard English translation of Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, and Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation (OUP 2002). Geshe Ngawang Samten is Director and Vice Chancellor, as well as Professor of Indian Buddhist Philosophy, of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in India. He is the editor of the standard critical Tibetan edition of Nāgārjuna's ratnavali (CIHTS Press 1991).