[INDOLOGY] New book: Candrakī rti's introduction to the Middle Way. A Guide

[Birgit Kellner]

Dear colleagues,

chapters 1-5 were published by Horst Lasic, Xuezhu Li and Anne 
MacDonald, on the basis of preparatory work by Helmut Krasser, in 2022; 
the volume is available in Open Access (but of course also as a book):

https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/produkt/candrak-rti-s-madhyamak-vat-rabh-ya/99200569?name=candrak-rti-s-madhyamak-vat-rabh-ya&product_form=3934

With best regards,

Birgit Kellner


Am 21.01.24 um 22:36 schrieb Paul Hackett via INDOLOGY:
> *External Email*: please use links and attachments from trusted 
> sources only
>
> Dear Madhav,
>
> To my knowledge, other than fragmentary quotations from chapter 1 
> through5, only chapter 6 has been published in its entirety:
>
> Li Xuazhu
> "Madhyamakāvatāra-kārikā, Chapter 6”
> JIP 41(3) [2015]: 1-30
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
>> On Jan 21, 2024, at 4:13 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY 
>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Dear David,
>>
>>      Can you please give me a reference to the publication of the six 
>> chapters of the Sanskrit text of the Madhyamakāvatāra? Thanks.
>>
>> Madhav
>>
>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
>> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 
>> India
>>
>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 11:17 AM David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY 
>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>     Dear Jan,
>>
>>     Thank you for letting us know about this new book of yours.
>>     Regarding the series it is published in, you say "These are meant
>>     to be read alongside the texts themselves." Is there a particular
>>     translation of the /Madhyamakāvat//ā//ra/ that you correlated
>>     your book to? The several that I know of were all made from the
>>     Tibetan translation, before the Sanskrit original was discovered
>>     and its first six chapters were published. Thanks.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>
>>     David Reigle
>>     Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
>>     On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 11:37 AM Jan Westerhoff via INDOLOGY
>>     <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>         Dear Colleagues,
>>         some of you might be interested in this new book of mine,
>>         which has just
>>         come out:
>>
>>         Candrakīrti's Introduction to the Middle Way. A Guide.
>>
>>         Oxford University Press 2024, 296 pages, ISBN: 9780197612347.
>>
>>         https://global.oup.com/academic/product/candrakrtis-introduction-to-the-middle-way-9780197612347?cc=us&lang=en#
>>         <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/candrakrtis-introduction-to-the-middle-way-9780197612347?cc=us&lang=en#>
>>
>>         This volume is part of the "Oxford Guides to Philosophy"
>>         series, a set of
>>         volumes introducing classical philosophical texts. These are
>>         meant to be
>>         read alongside the texts themselves; my commentary focuses on the
>>         philosophical content of the text, using Candrakīrti's
>>         auto-commentary as the main explicatory resource.
>>
>>         From the blurb:
>>
>>         Candrakīrti's Introduction to the Middle Way
>>         (Madhyamakāvatāra) is a central work of Buddhist
>>         philosophy for
>>         two reasons. First, it provides an introduction to
>>         Madhyamaka, one of the
>>         three major philosophical schools of Buddhist thought (the
>>         other two being
>>         Abhidharma and Yogācāra). Second, within Madhyamaka,
>>         Candrakīrti's text occupies a very prominent role. This
>>         is primarily
>>         due to its enormous influence in Tibet, where
>>         Candrakīrti's work
>>         became the main entry-point into the study of Madhyamaka
>>         thought. While
>>         the historical importance of the Introduction to the Middle
>>         Way for
>>         understanding a major section of Buddhist thought is evident,
>>         what makes
>>         it particularly interesting for students is the role it plays
>>         as an
>>         'introduction'. It is one of Candrakīrti's earlier works
>>         and presents
>>         a comprehensive guide to the key philosophical ideas and
>>         problems of
>>         Madhyamaka thought.
>>
>>
>>
>>         Best wishes
>>
>>         Jan Westerhoff
>>
>>
>>
>>         ***************************
>>         JC Westerhoff
>>         Lady Margaret Hall
>>         University of Oxford
>>         Norham Gardens
>>         Oxford OX2 6QA
>>         United Kingdom
>>
>>         www.janwesterhoff.net <http://www.janwesterhoff.net/>
>>         westerhoff at cantab.net
>>
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Prof. Birgit Kellner, PhD, wM
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