Title: The formless self
First published: 1999
Description: Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamarsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay "The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness," and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness.

These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.
Subjects: Japanese Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy, Japanese, Religion, Self (Philosophy), Buddhistische Philosophie, Selbst, PSYCHOLOGY, Personality, Mind & Body
People: Dōgen (1200-1253), Keiji Nishitani (1900-), Shinʾichi Hisamatsu (1889-)
LC classification: B5243.S44 S73 1999