Philosophy East and West
2016
Devasia M. Antony
1 citation
The attempt here is to meditate philosophically on the nature, meaning, and significance of the conceptions of play, theater, and nondualism and to articulate further the metaphysical interweaving and symphony of these concepts with particular reference to the domain of social ethics. After a brief analysis of the philosophical notion of nondualism and its description of reality as...
Philosophy East and West
2016
Owen Flanagan
Does Yoga Induce Metaphysical Hallucinations?Interdisciplinarity at the Edge: Comments on Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being Owen Flanagan (bio) Waking, Dreaming, Being is an unusual book in many ways. I mention two. First, in some ways it is a memoir. Few philosophers started as a child doing the sort of philosophy that they did as a grown-up. Evan did. Evan grew up in the intellectually...
Philosophy East and West
July 1, 2014
Alan A. Preti
This article revisits a debate about the nature and function of anubhava or intuition in Advaita Vedānta. In their presentation of Indian thought to the West, neo-Vedāntins such as Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan emphasized intuitive experience as a unique means to brahmajñāna , or Brahman-realization. In so doing, they distanced themselves from the tradition’s emphasis on the role of scripture...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2014
Andrea Leonardi
In Nishida Kitarō’s An Inquiry into the Good and The Logic of Locus and the Religious Worldview , written respectively at the beginning and at the end of his philosophical career, one can find remarkably similar references to mysticism which nevertheless give opposite evaluations of the phenomenon: while mysticism is highly praised in the former, it is disparaged in the latter. This essay is a...
Philosophy East and West
October 1, 2011
Alan A. Preti
1 citation
Reviewed by: Consciousness in Indian Philosophy: The Advaita Doctrine of 'Awareness Only' Alan Preti Consciousness in Indian Philosophy: The Advaita Doctrine of 'Awareness Only'. By Sthaneshwar Timalsina. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 179. In the Indian tradition, the identification of pure consciousness as an independent monistic principle identical with Being can be traced, as is well known,...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2011
Johannes Bronkhorst
62 citations
A Note on Nirvikalpaka and Savikalpaka Perception Johannes Bronkhorst Some ten years ago an interesting discussion took place in the pages of this journal. It began with an article by Arindam Chakrabarti (2000) whose title betrays its intention: "Against Immaculate Perception: Seven Reasons for Eliminating Nirvikalpaka Perception from Nyāya." There followed a response by Stephen H. Phillips...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2011
Kim-chong Chong
21 citations
The term zhen in the Zhuangzi is commonly associated with the zhen ren or the "true person," who is described, for example, as capable of going through fire and water unharmed. Some scholars take this as typifying a mystical element in the Zhuangzi . This essay investigates the various meanings and uses of zhen in the Zhuangzi and reaches a broader understanding of the zhen ren in various...
Philosophy East and West
2011
Jay L. Garfield
13 citations
Hey, Buddha! Don’t Think! Just Act!—A Response to Bronwyn Finnigan Jay L. Garfield The Problem: How a Buddhist can Conceptualize a Buddha’s Enlightened Action In the course of a careful and astute discussion of the difficulties facing a Buddhist account of the moral agency of a buddha, Bronwyn Finnigan develops a challenging critique of a proposal I made in a recent article (Garfield 2006)....
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2010
Stuart Ray Sarbacker
Reviewed by: Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation Stuart Ray Sarbacker Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation. Edited by Gerald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya. Volume 12 of Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy, Series Editor Karl Potter. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2008. Pp. 784. Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation is the most recent volume in the highly acclaimed...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2007
Stephen Kaplan
The Advaita Vedānta notion of ātman/Brahman presents serious philosophical challenge to this school—namely, it demands that they explain how all (reality) can be undivided, unchanging, and pure consciousness, yet appear to be everything but nondual, unchanging, and pure consciousness. The Advaita answer is avidyā, ajñāna (ignorance). This answer tells us that Brahman does not really change; it...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2006
Jay L. Garfield
30 citations
rJe Tsong khapa argues that consciousness is not intrinsically reflexive even conventionally, and reads Candrakīrti and Śāntideva as endorsing this view. 'Ju Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912) criticizes Tsong khapa's argument and his reading of Candrakīrti, arguing that while ultimately consciousness is not intrinsically reflexive, conventionally it is. This article defends Tsong khapa's philosophy...
Philosophy East and West
July 1, 2005
Rui Zhu
Scholars have underestimated and misunderstood the distinction between Sōtō and Rinzai, the two major branches of Zen Buddhism, because they have either parroted the sectarian polemics of the schools themselves or, as in the case of prominent scholars Carl Bielefeldt and T. P. Kasulis, dismissed these polemics as deriving from institutional politics rather than substantive doctrinal or...
Philosophy East and West
2005
Charles Muller
Reviewed by: Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun Charles Muller Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun. By Dan Lusthaus. Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism Series. London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xii + 611. Hardcover $65.00. Western students of Yogācāra Buddhism have...
Philosophy East and West
2005
Jin Y. Park
Zen philosophy of language is discussed by exploring the concepts of live anddeadwords,involvement with meaningand involvement with words, and the three mysterious gates as they are employed in Pojo Chinul's huatou meditation. A comparison is made betweenthe Zenuse of language and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of visibility, Julia Kristeva's idea of the semiotic and the symbolic, and Kierkegaard's...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2001
John Allen Tucker
Reviewed by: Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism John A. Tucker Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism. By Harold D. Roth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. v + 268. Hardcover $29.50. Searching for the origins of things remains a perennial favorite of Western scholars. For millennia, this quest has been at the core of...
Philosophy East and West
2001
James E. Miller
Reviewed by: Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi James Miller Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi. Edited by Roger T. Ames. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 239. "Good grief!" exclaimed the reviewer as he greedily tore open the package from Philosophy East and West. "Not another book on Zhuangzi!" As it turns out, Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi, edited by Roger T....
Philosophy East and West
October 1, 1996
Graham Parkes, John James Clarke
47 citations
Jung was fascinated by the east. Through his commentaries on such texts as the I Ching and The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and through his essays on such topics as Zen, meditation and the symbolism of the mandala, Jung attempted to build a bridge of understanding between western psychology and the ancient ideas and practices of eastern religion. By doing so he hoped to relate traditional eastern...
Philosophy East and West
October 1, 1993
Daniel Barbiero, Robert K. C. Forman
188 citations
This is a paperback reprint of a collection of contributed essays about mysticism and philosophy. It challenges the widely accepted interpretaion of mystical experience that received its fullest expression in two volumes edited by Steven T. Katz: Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (OUP 1987) and Mysticism and Religious Traditions (OUP 1983). According to Katz and his colleagues, mystical...
Philosophy East and West
1993
Andrey Smirnov
20 citations
The common basis underlying a philosophical exploration of Nicholas of Cusa and Ibn 'ArabT could perhaps be presented in the form of two closely linked assertions: first, the thesis that God is indefinable, and, second, a formula which states that the world is not God but is not anything other than God. These assertions were certainly not unknown to medieval thinkers, but it was the mystical...
Philosophy East and West
1989
Lou Nordstrom, Roderick S. Bucknell, Martin Stuart–Fox
15 citations
Meditation and symbolism the twilight language in historical context concentration insight meditation the three knowledges the five symbolic groups the mandala and cakras doctrinal and historical implications.
Philosophy East and West
October 1, 1982
Harold Coward, Winston L. King
17 citations
This is a major section analyses the meditational method of Buddhaghosa, showing the interaction between Upanishadic Yogic Jhanas mode of concentration, and Buddhist vipassana insight meditation.
Philosophy East and West
1952
E. A. Burtt, S. K. Saksena
13 citations
The study of Hindu Philosophy has so far been dominated by a purely historical interest, and not infrequently, it is more a time-honoured specific system than a philosophical problem in general which has attracted the scholar. The study of Hindu metaphysics, viewed from this standpoint alone is inadequate, since it fails to reveal all the consequences and possibilities which once appreciated,...