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An Ethical Samādhi: Brahma-vihāra Meditation and the Flexible Early Buddhist Path
This article offers a new interpretation of Brahma-vihārameditation (BVM) in early Buddhism, positioning it between ethical cultivation and...
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Ethics, Mindfulness, and Consciousness: A Study of Their Relation in Early Buddhism
Scholarly discussions of mindfulness normally treat the term as reflecting a specific, independent, psychological function. Here, mindfulness is...
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The Play of Formulas in the Early Buddhist Discourses
The play of formulasis a new theory designed to explain the manner in which discourses (Suttas, Sūtras) were composed in the early Buddhist...
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Aśvaghoṣa’s Viśeṣaka: The Saundarananda and Its Pāli “Equivalents”
When compared with the Pāli versions of the Nanda tale—the story of the ordainment and liberation of the Buddha’s half-brother—some of the peculiar...
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Language, Understanding and Reality: A Study of Their Relation in a Foundational Indian Metaphysical Debate
This paper engages with Johaness Bronkhorst’s recognition of a “correspondence principle” as an underlying assumption of Nāgārjuna’s thought....
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The Commitments of a Madhyamaka Trickster: Innovation in Candrakīrti’s Prasanna-padā
This paper challenges the notion that there is a complete continuity between the thought of Nāgārjuna and the thought of Candrakīrti. It is shown...
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Early Meanings of Dependent-Origination
Dependent-origination, possibly the most fundamental Buddhist philosophical principle, is generally understood as a description of all that exists....