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Bringing together the depth insights of eastern and western traditions, this book places the topic of the self in a new context.

Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamatsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness, and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.

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      Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/6/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780791441503, 978-0791441503
      ISBN10: 0791441504

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Bringing together the depth insights of eastern and western traditions, this book places the topic of the self in a new context.

      Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamatsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness, and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.

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