Is Buddhism's attitude towards accepted forms of knowledge sceptical? Are Pyrrhonian scepticism and classical Buddhist scholasticism related in their respective applications and expressions of doubt? In what way and to what degree is Critical Buddhism an offshoot of modern scepticism? Questions such as these as well as related issues are explored in the present collection, which brings together examinations of systematic doubt in the traditions of Buddhism from a variety of perspectives. What results from the perceptive observations and profound analytical insights of the seven essays is a rich and multi-faceted picture of two families of philosophical systems––scepticism and Buddhism––that seem both akin and at odds, both related and distant at the same time.
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Foreword by the Editors 7 Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 13 Introduction 15 Some Sceptical Doubts about "Buddhist Scepticism" 21 Beyond Reasonable Doubt? A Note on Dharmakīrti and Scepticism 37 Nāgārjuna’s Scepticism about Philosophy 55 Yavanayāna: Buddhist Soteriology in the Aristocles Passage 83 The Evident and the Non-Evident: Buddhism through the Lens of Pyrrhonism 109 Scripture and Scepticism in Vasubandhu’s Exegetical Method 131 Sceptical Buddhism as Provenance and Project 161 Index 179
