JIZANG (549–623), Chinese Buddhist monk of the Sanlun (Three-Treatise) tradition. Although half Parthian by birth, Jizang's upbringing and education were entirely Chinese. At the age of ten he became a novice under the Sanlun master...

BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY. When Buddhism first became known in the West, many historians of philosophy were reluctant to call it "philosophy." Philosophy in the strict sense was viewed as a legacy of the Greeks, who learned to cultivate a...

Buddhist Epistemology For Buddhist thinkers philosophy should aid one in eliminating suffering and obtaining happiness. They maintain that to achieve those ends, one must eliminate ignorance ( avidyā ), a fundamental mental flaw that is...

Mind and Mental States in Buddhist Philosophy A fundamental idea of all nonmaterialist Indian schools of philosophy, whether orthodox ones that follow the Vedas or heterodox ones such as Buddhist and Jaina that do not, is the cultivation of mind and...

Buddhist philosophy deals with extensively with problems in metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Introduction From its inception,...

Byline: Laura Zahn Pohl Daily Herald Correspondent The topic may sound familiar, but the take will be very different. "Why Bad Things Happen To Good People," a discussion presented by members of the Myogyogji Buddhist Temple in West Chicago, will be...

Edited by Ram Karan Sharma. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993. Pp. 285. One of the noteworthy features of Researches in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy is an introduction, "A Biographical Sketch of Alex Wayman," in which Wayman's life appears much more interesting and convoluted...