Artur Przybysławski, Buddhist Philosophy of Emptiness [Buddyjska filozofia pustki], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2009.

The book presents the core of Buddhist teachings which is the philosophy of emptiness. It relies mainly on Chandrakirti's Introduction into middle way (with Tibetan commentaries of the 8th Karmapa Mikyo Dorje and Jamgon Mipham) and on Nagarjuna's text commented by Chandrakirti and Jamgon Mipham. Buddhist philosophy in its similarity to skepticism is shown as a consequent procedure freeing the mind from unnecessary philosophical bias in order to show reality the way it is. Emptiness turns out to be a tool used in the name of the unnamable experience of reality transcending every possible philosophical description.

 

Table of Contents

Preface, or 20 types of emptiness

Introduction: towards emptiness

Greece - India

Greece

India

 

Chapter 1: Emptiness of thing

Atomism and its critique

The notion of form and critique of the conception of elements

Critique of the notion of thing - the chariot which is not there

Illusory subject (skandhas)

Emptiness of thing

Critique of the notion of time

 

Chapter 2: Emptiness of essence

Critique of causality

Emptiness of essence

Co-emergence

 

Chapter 3: Emptiness of non-thing

 

Chapter 4: Emptiness of other thing

Emptiness of emptiness

Scepticism and emptiness of transgressing extremes - on the status of middle way philosophy

 

Final - emptiness is joy