Murti, T.R.V. The Central Philosophy of Buddhism. A Study of the Madhyamika System. Fourth Impression. London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1974. 14 cm x 16 cm. XIII, 372 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear on edge. Few minor spots on the edge. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name on the front free endpaper. Includes for example the following essays: Origin and Development of the Madhyamika Philosophy / The Two Traditions in Indian Philosophy / The 'Silence' of the Buddha and the Beginning of the Dialectic / Development in the Atma-tradition / The Madhyamika and some Western Dialectical Systems / Kant and the Madhyamika / The Hegelian and the Madhyamika Dialectic / Bradley and the Madhyamika / Sunyata is Absolutism, not Nihilism or Positivism etc etc

The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the 'second Buddha.' His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the concept of sunyata or 'emptiness.' For Nagarjuna, all phenomena are without any svabhaba, literally 'own-nature' or 'self-nature', and thus without any underlying essence. In this book, Jan Westerhoff offers a systematic account of Nagarjuna's philosophical position. He reads Nagarjuna in his own philosophical context, but he does not hesitate to show that the issues of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy have at least family resemblances to issues in European philosophy.