Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: NÄ GÄ Rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness

Cover Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Emptiness Between the Lines: Reading Buddhist Philosophy of/​and/​as Religion 0.0. The Dream Is Over 0.1. Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness 0.2. Believing Between the Lines 0.3. Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy 0.4. Contexts and Texts 1. Orienting Reason: A Religious Critique of Philosophizing Nāgārjuna 1.1. The Unimaginative Question 1.2. Unveiling the East 1.3. Orientalizing Reasons 1.4. Reimagining Religion and Philosophy 2. Logical, Buddhological, Buddhist: A Critical Study of the Tetralemma 2.1. Matters and Methods 2.2. The Logical Tetralemma 2.3. The Buddhological Tetralemma 2.4. The Buddhist Tetralemma 3. Nāgārjuna’s Tetralemma: Tetrāletheia and Tathāgata, Utterance and Anontology 3.1. The Dilemma of the Tetralemma 3.2. The Exhaustive Tetralemma 3.3. Tetralemma as Tetrāletheia 3.4. Tetrāletheia as Tathāgata 3.5. Utterance and Anontology 3.6. Tetralemma and No-​Teaching 3.7. Silencing Nothing 4. Abandoning All Views: A Buddhist Critique of Belief 4.1. Views on Abandoning Views 4.2. Nāgārjuna’s Abandoning Views 4.3. Abandoning Nāgārjuna’s Views 5. All-​Embracing Emptiness: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness 5.1. The Abandonment of Ethics? 5.2. The Ethics of Abandonment 5.3. From Ethics to Eirenics 5.4. Abandoning All, Embracing All Notes Bibliography Index