On the Absence of Self: A Critical Analysis of Tsongkhapa’s Philosophy of Emptiness.

This paper addresses the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness as interpreted by the fourteenth-century Tibetan Tsongkhapa. Tsongkhapa’s emptiness maintains that all phenomena are “empty” of intrinsic existence, an idea which starkly contrasts common Western worldviews that rely of belief in self-enclo...

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Main Author: Shelton, Jesse
Format: Others
Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2012
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Online Access:https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/33
https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=honors