Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -…
The idea that there is a truth within the person discovered through introspection is found in most religions. This book examines this metaphor in the history of Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism and the methods developed in those religions to realise it, particularly prayer an…
"Led by Buddhists and the yoga traditions of Hinduism and Jainism, Indian thinkers have long engaged in a rigorous analysis and reconceptualization of our common notion of self. Less understood is the way in which such theories of self intersect with issues involving agency and …
Contributed research papers presented at seminar.
"The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the K…
