David J. Kalupahana (1936–2014)
Author of Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis
Works by David J. Kalupahana
Associated Works
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (1993) — Translator, some editions — 649 copies, 8 reviews
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- Birthdate
- 1936
- Date of death
- 2014-01-15
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (BA)
University of London (Ph.D.)
University of Peradeniya (D. Lit) - Occupations
- professor emeritus
- Organizations
- University of Hawaii
University of Ceylon - Relationships
- Kalupahana, Indrani (wife)
- Short biography
- Sri Lankan scholar of epistemology, theory of language, and Buddhist philosophical texts.
- Nationality
- Sri Lanka
USA - Places of residence
- Honolulu , Hawaii , USA
- Place of death
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Recommended by Ayya Sobhana. representing the culmination of Dr. Kalupahana's thirty years of scholarly research and reflection, A History of Buddhist Philosophy provides a completely reconstructed, detailed analysis of both early and later Buddhism.
CONTENTS:
Part one: early Buddhism
Indian philosophy and the search for ultimate objectivity
Life of the Buddha
Knowledge and understanding
Experience and theory
Language and communication
The human personality
The object
The problem of suffering
Freedom and happiness
The moral life
Popular religious thought
Part two: continuities and discontinuities
The emergence of absolutism
Moggaliputta-tissa and the Kathavattu
Abhidamma
The perfection of wisdom in the Vajracchedika
Nagarjuna and the show more Mulamadhyamakakarika
The saddharmapundarika-sutra and conceptual absolutism
The Lankavatara-sutra and the great emptiness (maha-sanyata)
Vasubandhu and the Vijnaptimatratasiddhi
Dignaga’s epistemology and logic
Buddhadosa the harmonizer
Tantras and parittas: the voiceful tradition
Silent meditation and Ch’an (Zen)
The voiceless tradition
Epilogue: philosophy and history
Appendix: history of the Lankavatara show less
Part one: early Buddhism
Indian philosophy and the search for ultimate objectivity
Life of the Buddha
Knowledge and understanding
Experience and theory
Language and communication
The human personality
The object
The problem of suffering
Freedom and happiness
The moral life
Popular religious thought
Part two: continuities and discontinuities
The emergence of absolutism
Moggaliputta-tissa and the Kathavattu
Abhidamma
The perfection of wisdom in the Vajracchedika
Nagarjuna and the show more Mulamadhyamakakarika
The saddharmapundarika-sutra and conceptual absolutism
The Lankavatara-sutra and the great emptiness (maha-sanyata)
Vasubandhu and the Vijnaptimatratasiddhi
Dignaga’s epistemology and logic
Buddhadosa the harmonizer
Tantras and parittas: the voiceful tradition
Silent meditation and Ch’an (Zen)
The voiceless tradition
Epilogue: philosophy and history
Appendix: history of the Lankavatara show less
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