The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana - Hardcover

Stcherbatsky, Theodore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8120805291 ISBN 13: 9788120805293

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Pub, 2011

Synopsis

The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana provides an English Translation of Nagarjuna`s chapters on Causality and Nirvana and Chandrakiriti`s comprehensive commentary on the Sanskrit Text and presents a rare exposition of the Madhyamaka Dialectic. The book is edited by Jaideva Singh with an exhaustive introduction, containing the historical background of the Madhyamaka philosophy, a lucid exposition of its merciless logic, an admirable presentation of its uncanny metaphysics and a systematic account of its soteriology and Buddhology. The editor has also provided and Analysis of Contents and has added those portions of the text and the Sanskrit commentary on the basis of which Stcherbatsky wrote out his book. This will enable the reader to make a comparative study of Stcherbatsky;s version with the Original Sanskrit.

About this title

About the Author:

Theodore Stcherbatsky (1866-1942) one of the pioneering scholars of Buddhist Studies who wrote, edited and translated several works like Nyayabindu, Abhisamayalamkara Prajnaparamitopadesa Sastra, Buddhist Logic (2 Vols.), The Central Conception of Buddhism, Erkenntnistheorie and Logic, nqch der Lehre der Spateren Buddhisten and so on and so forth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8120805291
• ISBN 13: 9788120805293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 318