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The Vijnanavadins have long been characterized as believing in an Absolute. Thomas Wood investigates the extent to which this characterization is true. Though a detailed analysis of some of their fundamental texts, Dr. Wood demonstrates that the Vijnanavadins were in fact ambivalent - and in some cases even inconsistent - in their philosophical views on this point.
This monograph is directed primarily to scholars of Indian philosophy and religion interested in ...
For over fifteen hundred years, the prevailing view of the Madhyamikas in India has been that they were absolute nihilists. According to the Mimamsakas, the Vedantins, the Naiyayikas, the Jainas and even their fellow-Mahayanists, the Vijnanavadins, the Madhyamikas denied the reality of both nirvana and samsara. In the first part of this century, St. Schayer and Th. Stchetbatsky rejected the nihilist interpretation of the Madhyamikas. The present work is a defence ...
The Mandukya Upanisad and the Agama-Sastra are two of India's most important philosophical and religious texts. The present monograph challenges many of the interpretations of these texts which have been favoured by the Sankara school and by most modern scholarship.