A respected professor of Buddhist philosophy brings readers on a fascinating journey through Buddhism�s most animating ideas.

Tom Tillemans, who has studied Buddhist philosophy since the 1970s, excels in bringing analytic and continental philosophy into conversation with thinkers in the Sanskrit and Tibetan traditions. This volume collects his writings on the most rarefied of Buddhist philosophical traditions, the Madhyamaka, and its radical insights into the nature of reality. Tillemans' approach ranges from retelling the history of ideas, to considering implications of those ideas for practice, to formal appraisal of their proofs. The 12 essays (four of which are being published for the first time) are products of rich and sophisticated debates and dialogues with colleagues in the field.

How Do Madhyamikas Think?, Tom J.F. Tillemans, Paperback, 278 Pages, 2016, $38.95

Tom J.F. Tillemans is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. With a focus on Buddhist logic and epistemology, Madhyamaka philosophy, and comparative philosophy, he was from 1998�2006 co-editor of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. Born in 1950 in the Netherlands and raised in Canada, he now serves as a senior project editor for the 84000 project tasked with translating the scriptures of the Tibetan Buddhist canon. He divides his time between Switzerland and British Columbia, Canada.

	Introduction	1
	Madhyamaka's Promise as Philosophy
1	Trying to be Fair	19
2	How Far Can a Madhyamika Reform Customary Truth? Dismal Relativism, Fictionalism, Easy-Easy Truth,a dn the Alternatives	47
	Logic and Semantics
3.	How do Madhyamikas Think? Notes on Jay Garfield, Graham Priest, and Paraconsistency	67
4.	"How DO Madhyamikas Thank?" Revisited	85
5.	Prasanga and Proof by Contradiction in Bhaviveka, Candrakirti, and Dharmakirti	95
6.	Apoha Semantics: What Did Bhaviveka Have to Do with It	111
7.	What Happened to the Third and Fourth Lemmas in the Tibetan Madhyamaka	125
	Ethics and the Spiritual Path
8.	Madhyamaka Buddhist Ethics	141
9.	Reason, Irrationality, and Akrsia (Weakness of Will) in Buddhism: Reflectiosn upon Santideva's Arguments with Himself	159
10.	Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Enlightenment: The Epistemological Issues in a Key Debate between Madhyamaka and Chan	179
	Madhyamaka in Contemporary Debates
11.	On Minds, Dharmakirti, and Madhyamaka	201
12.	Serious, Lightweight, or Neither: Should Madhyamaka Fo to Canberra	221
	Notes on the Articles	243
	Abreviations	245
	Bibliography	247
	Index	265
	About the Author	279