A Buddhist Text from the 4th Century. ASAṄGA – The Discrimination between Middle and Extremes (An Annotated Romanian Translation). II – Sections II and III

Authors

  • Ovidiu Nedu “History Museum“ of Galati

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35219/history.2010.11

Keywords:

obstructions, obstructions of the afflictions, obstructions of the knowable, afflictions, reality, self, object

Abstract

The Discrimination between Middle and Extremes is one of the major Mahāyāna Buddhist texts, usually ascribed to the Vijñānavāda tradition. The second chapter deals with soteriological matters, being an analytical exposition of the path. The chapter shows the blending of Mahāyāna’s ontology with the Abhidharmic phenomenological analysis, which is one of the definitory features of Vijñānavāda. It has a high level of technicality, being tributary to the very alambicated phenomenological classifications of the Abhidharmic masters. Equally technical is the third chapter, dealing with different perspectives of considering the reality. It approaches a metaphysical issue, the reality (a properly Mahāyānist issue), by making use of some specifically Hīnayānist systems of categories.

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Author Biography

  • Ovidiu Nedu, “History Museum“ of Galati

    Ph.D., Researcher, History Museum, Galaţi (Romania).

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Published

2010-12-05

Issue

Vol. 9 (2010)

Section

ISTORIA CULTURII

How to Cite

A Buddhist Text from the 4th Century. ASAṄGA – The Discrimination between Middle and Extremes (An Annotated Romanian Translation). II – Sections II and III. (2010). The Annals of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati. Fascicle XIX: History, 9, 163-179. https://doi.org/10.35219/history.2010.11

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