num_pages: 320
description: This volume collects Jay Garfield's essays on Madhyamaka Yog-ac-ara Buddhist ethics and cross-cultural hermeneutics. The first part addresses Madhyamaka supplementing Garfield's translation of Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (OUP 1995) a foundational philosophical text by the Buddhist saint Nagarjuna. Garfield then considers the work of philosophical rivals and sheds important light on the relation of Nagarjuna's views to other Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical positions.
language: English
title: Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation
publisher: Oxford University Press