Smiling at the Flower (Tibetan Buddhist Philosophical Realm) (Tibetan Buddhist Philosophical Realm)

Author: Bandan Dorge
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: This book uses extensive Tibetan original materials, the author's personal experience with Tibetan Buddhism, and a broad perspective of theology, cultural studies, and philosophy to comprehensively and deeply interpret and translate the fundamental contents, distinct characteristics, system construction, theoretical sources, and ideological shifts of the various schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The book's unique feature is its annotation of the "Other-Empty Yogacara View" and "Self-Empty Yogacara View" in the history of Tibetan Buddhism using the categories of Western modern philosophy, existentialism and rationalism. It points out that the "Other-Empty View" embodies existentialist philosophical connotations and reflects a "non-existence" orientation, while the "Self-Empty View" contains the ideological essence of rationalism, demonstrating a "existence" orientation. It summarizes the historical trajectory of Tibetan Buddhist thought development with the philosophical proposition of the interaction and even fusion of "existence" and "non-existence," and concludes the highest realm of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.