Madhyamaka and Yogacara
Allies or Rivals?
Edited by Jay L. Garfield and Jan Westerhoff
Author Information
Jay L. Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Professor of Humanities and Head of Studies in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, Recurrent Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. He teaches and pursues research in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, theoretical and applied ethics, and epistemology.
Jan Westerhoff is University Lecturer in Religious Ethics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow and Tutor in Theology and Religion at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research concentrates on systematic aspects of ancient Indian philosophy, especially on Madhyamaka.
Contributors:
James Blumenthal is an associate professor of philosophy at Oregon State University and professor of Buddhist Studies at Maitripa College. He is the author of The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Santaraksita (2004) and co-author with Geshe Lhundup Sopa of Steps on the Path: A Commentary on the "Samatha" Chapter of Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo (2014). In addition he has written dozens of articles in scholarly venues and popular periodicals on various aspects of Buddhist thought and practice.
Malcolm David Eckel is Professor of Religion at Boston University, where he has received the Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence and has been recognized as Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities. At Boston University he has served as Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion and as Director of the Core Curriculum. Before joining Boston University, he served as Associate Professor and Administrative Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His publications include Bhaviveka and His Buddhist Opponents; Buddhism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places; To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness; Jnanagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction Between the Two Truths: An Eighth-Century Handbook of Madhyamaka Philosophy; and "Is There a Buddhist Philosophy of Nature?" in Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Buddhism and Ecology.
Jay L. Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Head of Studies in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, Recurrent Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. Among Garfield's most recent books are Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analysis (co-edited with Mario D'Amato and Tom Tillemans (2009), The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy (edited, with William Edelglass, 2010), Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic (with Jim Henle and Tom Tymoczko, 2011), and Contrary Thinking: Selected Papers of Daya Krishna (edited with Nalini Bhushan and Daniel Raveh, 2011).
Jonathan C. Gold is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Julis Foundation University Preceptor at Princeton University. He is the author of Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (2014) and The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (2007).
Dan Lusthaus, a leading scholar of Yogacara Buddhism, has published extensively on Indian, Chinese and Japanese philosophy. Publications include Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng wei-shih lun (2002) A Comprehensive Commentary on the Heart Sutra (Prajñaparamita-hrdaya-sutra) by K'uei-chi (translated in collaboration with Heng-Ching Shih; 2001), and numerous articles on Buddhist, Hindu, and Daoist thought. He has taught at UCLA, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, and Boston University, and has been a Research Associate at Harvard University since 2005.
Mattia Salvini is a lecturer in the International PhD Programme in Buddhist Studies, Mahidol University (Thailand). During his Sanskrit studies in India (BA and MA Sanskrit, RKM Vivekananda College, Chennai), Mattia had a chance to study Buddhist texts with Prof.Ramsankar Tripathi . In the following years, he obtained a Phd in Buddhist Philosophy from SOAS, with a thesis focusing on the relationship between traditional Sanskrit grammar and Buddhist philosophy in a South-Asian context. His further research in Buddhist studies has focused on the conceptual and exegetical background of Madhyamaka thought.
Eviatar Shulman is a Mandel postdoctoral fellow at the Scholion center of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Journal of Indian Philosophy, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, History of Religions, and the Indo-Iranian Journal. He is the author of Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception. He has also published a Hebrew translation of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika.
Mark Siderits recently retired from the Philosophy Department of Seoul National University, where he taught Asian and comparative philosophy. His research interests lie in the intersection between classical Indian philosophy on the one hand, and analytic metaphysics and philosophy of language on the other. Among his more recent publications are Buddhism As Philosophy (Ashgate/Hackett), Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate) and, together with Shoryu Katsura, Nagarjuna's Middle Way: Mulamadhyamakakarika (Wisdom). He has also edited several collections of work on Indian/analytic philosophy.
Chaisit Suwanvarangkul is Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, University of Otago. He was born in a society shaped by Thai Theravada Buddhism, and spent more than ten years as an ordained monk, studying the Dhamma and Vinaya in Thailand. After that he did research into Mahayana Buddhism, particularly into the Yogacara, at Kyoto University and University of Delhi. His field of research is Early Buddhist doctrine, Tathagatagarbha doctrine and Yogacara.
Sonam Thakchöe is the Asian philosophy lecturer at University of Tasmania. He coordinates Asian Philosophy Program and directs the Tasmanian Buddhist Studies in India Exchange Program. His research specialises in the theories of the two truths in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. His current research project explores the nature of the Prasangika's philosophy.
Jan Westerhoff is a University Lecturer in Religious Ethics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Originally trained as a philosopher and orientialist, his research focuses on philosophical aspects of the religious traditions of ancient India. His publications include: Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka. A Philosophical Introduction (2009), The Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartan? (2010), and Reality. A Very Short Introduction, (2011).
