Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason: Santaraksita and Kamalasila on Rationality, Argumentation, and Religious Authority - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 36: Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

McClintock, Sara L.

 
9780861716616: Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason: Santaraksita and Kamalasila on Rationality, Argumentation, and Religious Authority
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0861716612 ISBN 13 : 9780861716616
Editeur : Wisdom Publications, 2010

Synopsis

The great Buddhist scholars Santaraksita (725 - 88 CE.) and his disciple Kamalasila were among the most influential thinkers in classical India. They debated ideas not only within the Buddhist tradition but also with exegetes of other Indian religions, and they both traveled to Tibet during Buddhism's infancy there. Their views, however, have been notoriously hard to classify. The present volume examines Santaraksita's Tattvasamgraha and Kamalasila's extensive commentary on it, works that cover all conceivable problems in Buddhist thought and portray Buddhism as a supremely rational faith.

One hotly debated topic of their time was omniscience - whether it is possible and whether a rational person may justifiably claim it as a quality of the Buddha. Santaraksita and Kamalasila affirm both claims, but in their argumentation they employ divergent rhetorical strategies in different passages, advancing what appear to be contradictory positions. McClintock's investigation of the complex strategies these authors use in defense of omniscience sheds light on the rhetorical nature of their enterprise, one that shadows their own personal views as they advance the arguments they deem most effective to convince the audiences at hand.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sara McClintock (PhD 2002, Harvard University) is a Buddhist philosopher and scholar of religion whose interests converge at the intersections of ethics, metaphysics, truth, and story. Sara is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University.

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Éditeur
Wisdom Publications
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0861716612
ISBN 13 
9780861716616
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Broché
Nombre de pages
440
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