Journal of Indian Philosophy
March 14, 2025
Jacob D. Fisher
2 citations
Abstract This paper examines whether Mādhyamikas meditate, or if their insight into reality is purely a theoretical one. While traditional scholarship in India and Tibet is of a single voice in considering Madhyamaka fundamentally a meditative tradition, contemporary interpretations frequently neglect its meditative dimension by getting embroiled in its metaphysical aspects, via the lenses of...
Journal of Indian Philosophy
2025
Ryan Conlon
This article presents a critical edition of and commentary on the Nairātmyāprakāśa, a Buddhist tantric ritual manual (sādhana) composed by the eleventh-century scholar and siddha Advayavajra/Maitrīpāda. The text teaches meditations on Nairātmyā, the central yoginī of the Hevajra system, while also incorporating distinctive elements of Advayavajra's philosophy and system of tantric practice. An...
Journal of Indian Philosophy
September 9, 2023
Grzegorz L. Polak
3 citations
Abstract In this paper, I discuss some philosophical problems connected with the notion of regarding the aggregates (khandha) as self in the Nikāyas. In particular, I focus on the attitude represented by the formula “I am this” (esohamasmi) which may be labeled as that of identifying with the aggregates. In the first part of the paper, I point out and analyze certain similes contained in the...
Journal of Indian Philosophy
August 3, 2023
Daisy S. Y. Cheung
The eleventh-century Indian Buddhist master Ratnākaraśānti presents a unique Yogācāra interpretation of tantric maṇḍala visualisation in the *Guhyasamājamaṇḍalavidhiṭīkā. In this text, he employs the neither-one-nor-many argument to assert that the qualities of the mind represented by the deities in the maṇḍala are neither the same nor different from the mind itself. He also provides five...
Journal of Indian Philosophy
June 15, 2023
Dhivan Thomas Jones
Abstract The publication in 2015 (ed. Li) of Chap. 6 of the rediscovered Sanskrit text of Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra (MA) allows us to witness more directly Candrakīrti’s careful and deliberate critique of the ‘chariot argument’ for the merely conventional existence of the self in Indian Abhidharmic thought. I argue that in MA 6.140–141, Candrakīrti alludes to the use of the chariot...
Journal of Indian Philosophy
February 25, 2022
K. O’brien-kop
4 citations
This paper examines the topic of Yogācāra idealism through a little studied Buddhist meditation manual, the so-called ‘Yogalehrbuch’ or ‘Qizil Yoga Manual’, a primarily Buddhist Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma text with Mahāyāna Yogācāra strands. What does this unique Central Asian text say about Buddhist meditation practices called yogācāra or yoga? It centres on methods of vivid visualization that...