Center for South Asia Weekly Lecture Series Fall 2023
Why Can’t Mādhyamikas Finish What They Started? | Constance Kassor | Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Lawrence University in Wisconsin
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Date
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Time
12-1 p.m.
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Description
For some followers of the Madhyamaka school (called Mādhyamikas), their arguments about the ways that ordinary persons perceive, analyze, and engage with the world force them into seemingly bizarre conclusions when they attempt to explain the content of a fully awakened buddha’s mind. This paper considers one account of a buddha’s awakened awareness (ye shes), according to the Tibetan philosopher Gorampa Sonam Senge (1429-89)
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Free
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