By the Light of the Moon
Candrakīrti's Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 November 2025
- ISBN 9780197830741
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 216x140x16 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English 641
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Short description:
This book is a study of Candrakirti's philosophy and of his place in the history of the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy as it has developed in India, Tibet, and in modernity.
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Much of the commentary and scholarship on Candrakirti-whether canonical or contemporary-has been concerned with the question of whether Candrakirti is a radical nihilist who denies the possibility of any knowledge and the reality of both the external world and of the mind. Eminent Tibetan exegetes have argued that this is the correct understanding of Candrakirti and of Madhyamaka itself, and that Madhyamaka so understood is the correct philosophical position. Others have argued that Candrakirti provides the resources for reconciling realism with the emptiness of all phenomena. This debate continues among contemporary scholars: many, while less sanguine regarding the cogency of the position they ascribe to Candrakirti, read him explicitly as an ontological and epistemological nihilist. Others take him to advocate a plausible, moderately realist position.
The book argues that Candrakirti is not a nihilist. The authors show instead that Candrakirti develops a sophisticated understanding of knowledge in the context of massive delusion, of reality in the world of conventional truth, and of ethics in the domain of human life. This analysis reconciles the claim that all phenomena are empty-that they lack any intrinsic existence or identity-with a moderate realism about the conventional world.
This work is a comprehensive, clear, and capably argued contemporary explication of Candrakīrti's philosophy, which pushes hard towards realism. It is rooted in the similar views of the Tibetan Geluk school but defended with independent philosophical rigour. It should be at the top of the reading list for those interested in Madhyamaka as a live perspective in philosophy.
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