Exploring Buddhist Philosophy

In order to appreciate the diverse forms of conceptual rigor across Buddhist milieus, this introductory text drops the attempt to classify Buddhist thought as either logical argumentation or mystical insight. Instead, it foregrounds a leitmotif that reflects self-understandings of Buddhism as the “middle way”, namely that the history of Buddhist philosophy can be read as the negotiation of a dynamic tension between presence and absence, and between saying and not-saying.