Abstract
This article provides an introduction to YogÄcÄra. Indian Buddhist thinkers considered a wide range of philosophical problems, and each school was concerned with distinctive issues and adopted characteristic approaches. The Middle Way School (Madhyamaka) was mainly concerned with dialectical debate and applied a reductio ad absurdum (prasaá¹…ga) approach to the analysis of various philosophical systems. The Yogic Practice (YogÄcÄra) tradition, the other major philosophical strand of ancient and medieval Indian Buddhism, produced a number of influential treatises on epistemology and logic, and it dismissed the Madhyamaka focus on argument as a waste of time and as antithetical to the pursuit of liberation from cyclic existence, which for its proponents was founded on introspective meditation
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy |
Editors | William Edelglass and Jay L. Garfield |
Place of Publication | Oxford, UK |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1-13 |
Volume | 1 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780195328998 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |