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Volume : II, Issue : XII, January - 2013 THE PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDHA AND BUDDHISM: A RELOOK IN THE DOCTRINAL EXTENSION R. MUTHAMIL AND S. VEERAPANDIAN Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : This paper discusses the core teachings of Buddha and the extension of his
teachings through his followers in different lines over successive times. Buddhist
philosophy is the elaboration and explanation of the delivered teachings of the Buddha
as found in the Tripitaka and Agama. Its main concern is with explicating the dharmas
constituting reality. A recurrent theme is the reification of concepts, and the subsequent
return to the Buddhist middle way. Early Buddhism avoided speculative thought on
metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology, but was based instead on
empirical evidence gained by the ayatana. Nevertheless, Buddhist scholars have
addressed ontological and metaphysical issues subsequently. Particular points of
Buddhist philosophy have often been the subject of disputes between different schools of
Buddhism. These elaborations and disputes gave rise to various schools in early
Buddhism of Abhidhamma, and to the Mahayana traditions and schools of the
prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, Buddha-nature and Yogacara. Above all, the four noble
truths and the eightfold path remain the authentic foundation. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : R. MUTHAMIL AND S. VEERAPANDIAN, (2013). THE PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDHA AND BUDDHISM: A RELOOK IN THE DOCTRINAL EXTENSION. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. XII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1944.pdf References : - The life of Buddha is often mixed with written and unwritten evidences. However, a good account of his life story is available. Piyadassi Thera. Buddha: His Life and Teaching, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, 1982; Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche. Luminous Mind: The Way of the Buddha, Wisdom Publications: 1993; C.A.F. Rhys Davids, Buddhism, London: Read Books, 2007.
- Sources associated with Buddhist doctrines are varied in nature. They cover both for general readers as well as scholars. William Edelglass and Jay Garfield, Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009; D.J. Kalupahana, A history of Buddhist philosophy, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1994; Jay L. Garfield, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; R. Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998; William Montgomery McGovern, A Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, vol. 1: Cosmology, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1928.
- Written sources for core teachings are conditioned by different schools and sects. For example: Hans Wolfgang Schumann, trans. by Georg Fenerstein, Buddhism: An Outline of its Teachings and Schools, London: Rider, 1973; James Paul McDermott. Development in the Early Buddhist Concept of Kamma/Karma, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers: 1984; Joseph Walser, Nâgârjuna in Context: Mahâyâna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005; R.F. Gombrich, Theravada Buddhism: a social history from ancient Benares to modern Colombo, London and New York: Routledge, 1988.
- Rupert Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998; Noa Ronkin, Early Buddhist Metaphysics, New York: Rutledge, 2005; William Edelglass and Jay Garfield, Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche. Luminous Mind: The Way of the Buddha, Wisdom Publications: 1993.
- Jay L. Garfield, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
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