1. Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature. By Douglas Duckworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 328. Hardcover $105.00, ISBN 978-0-19-088395-9
摘要
Douglas Duckworth’s Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature introduces a thematic way to understand the terrain of Buddhist philosophy of mind. This book is exciting for scholars who work on Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of mind, and especially Buddhist philosophy of mind or phenomenology. This wide appeal emerges from Duckworth’s own skepticism of sectarian lines between Madhyamaka and Mind-Only (Yogācāra) traditions (as well as divisions within each). While guiding us through contentious topics, Duckworth shows us how these philosophies have an underappreciated affinity as they “orbit a common ground” of nonduality (p. 25). This review will focus its praise, summaries, and comments on the five chapters of Duckworth’s analysis, and strongly encourages readers to study the four translations of practical tantric texts in the appendices.
