印度佛家哲学

PHI 3211 Indian Buddhist Philosophies 印度佛家哲学

Course description

What is reality? How do we know? How shall we exist? This course intends to explore the rich sources of Indian Buddhist philosophical traditions. Topics include rebirth, karma, emptiness, theories of mind, language and perception. Attention will be given to their relevance to contemporary discussions in Western philosophy. Readings include basic works of Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, Yog ā c ā ra and Pram āṇ av ā da.

实相爲何？吾人何以知之？我等该如何存活？本课程旨在探讨印度佛教哲学传统的丰富资源，专题包括轮回、业、空，心识、语言和知觉的理论，亦注重与当代西方哲学有关讨论的关联，读物包括阿毗达摩、中观、唯识和量论的基本着作。

Assessment

Tutorial and class performance (15%)
Three short papers (with two students forming a group, less than 2,000 words each, 3×15%)
A final paper (3,000-5,000 words, 40%)

Schedule of the lectures:

Unit One: Introduction and Philosophy of Religion

1. Introduction
2. Historical review: four Buddhist philosophical schools
3. Rebirth and karma
4. Personal identity

Unit Two: Metaphysical Disputes

5. Time
6. Emptiness and two truths
7. Store-consciousness
8. Disputes on mind-only

Unit Three: Epistemological Issues

9. Perception
10. Self-awareness
11. Non-cognition
12. Theory of language
13. Empty Terms

Reading list (tentative) :

• Bhatt, S.R. & Mehrotra, Anu. Buddhist Epistemology . Westport : Greenwood Press, 2000.
• Blumenthal, James. The ornament of the middle way: a study of the Madhyamaka thought of Śāntarak ṣ ita: including translations of Śāntarak ṣ ita ” s Madhyamak ālamkāra (The ornament of the middle way) and Gyel-tsab’s dbU ma rgyan gyi brjed byang (Remembering “The ornament of the middle way”) . Ithaca , N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, 2004.
• Dhammajoti . Sarv ā stiv ā da Abhidharma . Sri Lanka : Centre of Buddhist Studies, 2002.
• Dreyfus, G.B.J. Recognizing Reality: Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy and its Tibetan Interpretations . Albany : State University of New York Press, 1997.
• Dreyfus, Georges B.J. and McClintock, Sara L., eds. The Svatantrika-Prasangika distinction : what difference does a difference make? Somerville , Mass. : Wisdom Publications, 2003.
• Dunne, John. Foundations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy . Wisdom Publications, 2004.
• Eckel, Malcolm David . Jnanagarbha’s commentary on the distinction between the two truths: an eighth century handbook of Madhyamaka philosophy . Albany : State University of New York Press, 1987.
• Eckel, Malcolm David. To see the Buddha: a philosopher’s quest for the meaning of emptiness. Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Harris, Ian Charles. The continuity of madhyamaka and yogacara in Indian Mahayana Buddhism . Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1991.
• Hattori , Masaaki . Dignāga on perception: being the pratyakṣapariccheda of Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya from the Sanskrit fragments and the Tibetan versions . Cambridge , Mass: Harvard University Press, 1968.
• Hayes, Richard P. Dignāga on the interpretation of signs . Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
• John P. Keenan. Dharmapalas’s Yogācāra critique of Bhavāviveka’s Mādhyamika: explanation of emptiness: the tenth chapter of Ta-ch”eng Kuang pai-lun shih, commenting on Āryadeva’s Catuḥśataka chapter sixteen . Lewiston , N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
• Kaluphana, David J. The philosophy of the middle way : introduction, Sanskrit text, English translation, and annotation. Albany , N.Y: State University of New York Press, 1986.
• Lopez, Donald S. A study of Svātantrika . Ithaca , N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, 1987.
• Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho. Speech of delight: Mipham’s commentary on Śāntarak ṣ ita’s Ornament of the middle way . Foreword by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche ; translated by Thomas H. Doctor. Ithaca , N.Y. : Snow Lion, 2004.
• Nagao, Gajin. Mādhyamaka and Yogācāra: a study of Mahāyāna philosophies: collected papers of G.M. Nagao . Edited, collated, and translated by L.S. Kawamura in collaboration with G.M. Nagao. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1991.
• Shcherbatskoĭ, F. I. (Th. Stcherbatsky). Buddhist logic . S”-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1958. [Chinese translation: 宋立道，舒晓炜译，《佛敎逻辑》，北京 : 商务印 书馆， 1997. ]
• Tillemans, Tom J.F. Scripture, Logic, Language : Essays on Dharmak ī rti and his Tibetan Successors . Boston : Wisdom Publications, 1999.
• Yao, Zhihua. The Buddhist Theory of Self-Cognition . Londona and New York: Routledge, 2005.