Religion W4620. Nonduality in Indian and Tibetan Thought

Columbia University, Fall 2002

Tuesday, October 8
Nagarjuna and Transcendent Wisdom

Assigned Reading

• Nagarjuna, Wisdom: The Fundamental Stanzas on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) (entire), in the draft translation by R. Thurman, available in the file of the same name in the "Class Files" section for this course on Courseworks@Columbia.
• Optional: Nagarjuna's "Sixty Verses on Philosophy" at the end of the same file, in the draft translation by R. Thurman and J. Loizzo.
• R. Thurman, The Central Philosophy of Tibet, pp. 99-111 (Introduction) and 253-264 (Chapter 3).

Related Material

• E. Conze, The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (or another version of the Prajnaparamita Sutra).

Western Relevance

• Joe Loizzo, "Intersubjectivity in Wittgenstein and Freud": an article applying a Centrist view of the modern therapeutic philosophy of language to a critique of dualism in modern psychology and medicine.

Links of interest