Table of Contents
Foreword Tom Tillemans Tillemans, Tom
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Mathematical and Linguistic Models in Indian Thought: The Case of Zero and Sunyata [1978] 1
2 Towards a Chronology of the Madhyamaka School [1982] 13
3 The Uses of the Four Positions of the Catuskoti and the Problem of the Description of Reality in Mahayana Buddhism [1977] 37
I The Four Positions in Early Buddhist Thought 37
II The Uses of the Catuskoti in the Madhyamaka 40
III Conjunction and Negation of Opposed Terms in Vijnanavada Definitions of Reality 67
IV Negation of Opposed Terms in the Description of the Absolute in the Ratnagotravibhaga 81
V The Vatsiputriya Conception of the Indeterminate 84
Appendix I Commentarial Interpretations of Mulamadhyamakakarika xviii.8 86
Appendix II Some Modern Interpretations of the Catuskoti 89
Appendix III The Logical Error of Negation of the Antecedent and the Mulamadhyamakakarikas 109
Bibliography 111
4 Le Dharmadhatustava de Nagarjuna [1971] 113
5 On the Authorship of Some Works Ascribed to Bha(va)viveka/Bhavya [1990] 145
6 The Svatantrika-Prasangika Distinction in the History of Madhyamaka Thought [2006] 159
7 Purport, Implicature, and Presupposition: Sanskrit abhipraya and Tibetan dgongs pa/dgongs gzhi as Hermeneutical Concepts [1985] 195
8 An Indian Source for the Tibetan Hermeneutical Term dgongs gzhi, "Intentional Ground" [1988] 213
9 Some Reflections on the Place of Philosophy in the Study of Buddhism [1995] 217
10 On the Tibetan Historiography and Doxography of the "Great Debate of Bsam yas" [1992] 253
11 Autour du Lta ba'i khyad par de Ye shes sde [1979] 267
12 The Jo nang pas: A School of Buddhist Ontologists According to the Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Doctrines (Grub mtha' shel gyi me long) [1963] 289
13 A Karma Bka' brgyud Work on the Lineages and Traditions of the Indo-Tibetan dbu ma (Madhyamaka) [1988] 323
14 La Pensee Tibetaine (accompagne d'une traduction du Rten ábrel bstod pa legs bshad snying po de Tsong kha pa) [1989] 357
15 The Indian and the Indic in Tibetan Cultural History, and Tsong kha pa's Achievement as a Scholar and Thinker: An Essay on the Concepts of "Buddhism in Tibet" and "Tibetan Buddhism" [2004] 375
English Glossary of Selected Terms 399
Publications David Seyfort Ruegg Ruegg, David Seyfort 407
Indexes 419