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“Evam Me Sutam: Oral Tradition in Nikaya Buddhism” in Jeffrey Timm (ed.), Text in Context: Traditional Hermeneutics in South Asia (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).In Jeffrey Timm (ed.), Jeffrey Timm (ed.), Text in Context: Traditional Hermeneutics in South Asia, State University of New York Press. 1992.
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36The Buddhist Empiricism Thesis: FRANK J. HOFFMANReligious Studies 18 (2): 151-158. 1982.In what follows I argue for two interrelated theses: that early Buddhism is not a form of empiricism, and that consequently there is no basis for an early Buddhist apologetic which contrasts an empirical early Buddhism with either a metaphysical Hinduism on the one hand, or with a baseless Christianity on the other
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24Buddhist Belief ‘In’: F. J. HOFFMANReligious Studies 21 (3): 381-387. 1985.Recent articles in Religious Studies have underscored the questions of whether Buddhism presents any empirical doctrines, and whether, if it does, such doctrines are false or vacuous. In what follows I want to sketch an interpretation of Buddhism according to which it does not offer doctrines which are empirically false, on the one hand, or trivially true on the other. In doing so I take my cue from an earlier, and by now classic, paper by H. H. Price. For the exposition of Buddhism I take the P…Read more
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4Breaking Barriers: Essays in Asian and Comparative Philosophy in Honor of Ramakrishna PuligandlaJain Publishing Company. 1982.Breaking Barriers is a collection of invited contributions by distinguished philosophers, scientists, and religious thinkers of East and West in honor of Professor Ramakrishna Puligandla. The twenty-three essays in this volume may be divided into four groups: Philosophy of Advaita, Buddhism, Indian Philosophy and Physics, and Asian and Comparative Thought. Contributors have written on topics such as the phenomenology of consciousness, science and religion, and comparative philosophy and religion…Read more
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“Knowledge and Ethics in Early Buddhism” (Zao Qi Fo Jiao Zhong De Dao De)In Li Lian (ed.), Fo Jiao Yu Dang Dai Wen Hua Jian She Xue Shu Yan Tao Hui Lun Wen Ji (The Collected Papers of "Buddhism and Contemporary Cultural Construction" Conference, Xi'an, China), Northwest University Press (shi Bei Daxue). 2013.
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3Book reviews (review)Asian Philosophy 7 (3): 235-252. 1997.Enlightenment East and West Leonard Angel, 1994 Albany, State University of New York Press 388 pp. Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism Bernard Faure, trans, by Phyius Brooks, 1996 Princeton, Princeton University Press 329 pp. Pāli Buddhism. Curzon Studies in Asian Philosophy Frank J. Hoffman & Deegaixe Mahinda, 1996 Richmond, Curzon Press xiii + 233 pp., ISBN 0 7007 0359 4, hb £40 Friendship East and West: philosophical perspectives Oliver Leaman, 1996 Richmond UK, Curzon Pres…Read more
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20Contemporary buddhist philosophy: A bibliographical essayAsian Philosophy 2 (1). 1992.No abstract
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Review of Zen Keys by Thich Nhat Hanh, Albert Low, and Jean Low; and of The Golden Age of Zen by John C. Wu (review)Philosophy East and West 48 (1): 165-167. 1998.
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35Rationality and Mind in Early BuddhismMotilal Banarsidass. 1987, 1992, 2002.Chapter 4 MIND AND REBIRTH I The argument of the first three chapters is essentially that the study of early Buddhism is neither methodologically, logically, nor emotively flawed. These chapters argue for the rationality of
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1“Meanings of 'The Meaning of Life' in Buddhism”In Ramakrishna Puligandla David Lee Miller (ed.), Buddhism and the Emerging World Civilization, Southern Illinois University Press,. 1996.
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“Gandhi”In Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. 1998.
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“The Concept of Focal Point in Models for Inter-religious Understanding”In James Kellenberger (ed.), Inter-religious Models and Criteria, St. Martin's and Macmillan. 1993.
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Buddhism in the Developing WorldIn Thomas M. Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Developing World, . 2006.
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Review of Bruce Reichenbach, The Law of KarmaInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 35. 1994.
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“Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy”In Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge. 1997.
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4“Karma in Buddhism and Jainism: Karma, Rebirth, and the Question of Transferability of Karma”Indian Philosophical Annual 23. 2001-2002.
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64Dao and ProcessAsian Philosophy 12 (3). 2002.This paper is about different types of silence, and about differing processes of philosophical investigation and sagely illumination. It is argued that the sagely Dao of wu wei leads to silence in the sense of no spoken words, and the philosophical way of proof leads to silence in the sense of no spoken words. So both proof and wu wei both lead to silence in the sense of no spoken words. Accordingly there is a type of silence that results from the explosive process of philosophical argumentation…Read more
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“Satisfactions and Obstacles in Philosophizing Across Cultures”In D. P. Chattopadaya and C. Gupta (ed.), Cultural Otherness and Beyond, E.j. Brill. 1998.
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Rethinking Experience in Early BuddhismIn Frank J. Hoffman Mahinda Deegalle (ed.), Pali Buddhism, Jain Publishing Co.. 2003.
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Asian Philosophy |
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