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Knowledge and Liberation

Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology in Support of Transformative Religious Experience

By Anne Carolyn Klein

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9781559391146
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Snow Lion
01/19/1987
Pages: 288
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 9781559391146
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Buddhist philosophy is concerned with defining and overcoming the limitations and errors of perception. To do this is essential to Buddhism's purpose of establishing a method for attaining liberation. Conceptual thought in this view can lead to a liberating understanding, a transformative religious experience. The author discusses the workings of both direct and conceptual cognition, drawing on a variety of Tibetan and Indian texts. The Gelukba interpretation of Dignaga and Dharmakirti is greatly at variance with virtually all other scholarship concerning these seminal Buddhist logicians.

Buddhist Academic
Buddhist Philosophy
Gelug Tradition
Madhyamaka
Author Bio
Anne Carolyn Klein
Anne Carolyn Klein is Professor and a former Chair of the Department of Religion at Rice University. She is also a cofounding director of the Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, Community Center, and Research Institute. Her publications include Path to the Middle (SUNY Press), Unbounded Wholeness, coauthored with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (Oxford University Press), and Knowledge and Liberation (Snow Lion Publications).
Praise

"This book is indispensable for anyone desiring a deeper understanding of the fundamental issues in Buddhist philosophy. It is also highly relevant to issues current in modern Western philosophy." —Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies

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