Knowledge and Liberation: Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology in Support of Transformative Religious Experience

Buddhist philosophy is concerned with defining and overcoming the limitations and errors of perception. To do this is essential to Buddhism's purpose of establishing a method for attaining liberation. Conceptual thought in this view can lead to a liberating understanding, a transformative religious experience. The author discusses the workings of both direct and conceptual cognition, drawing on a variety of Tibetan and Indian texts. The Gelukba interpretation of Dignaga and Dharmakirti is greatly at variance with virtually all other scholarship concerning these seminal Buddhist logicians.

Author: Anne Carolyn Klein
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 01/01/1987
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.57w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9781559391146
ISBN10: 1559391146
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism | General (see also Philosophy | Buddhist)

About the Author
Anne C. Klein is professor and chair of Religious Studies at Rice University. She is also a founding director and resident teacher of Dawn Mountain, a center for contemplative study and practice in Houston. Her publications include Path to the Middle (SUNY Press), Unbounded Wholeness, coauthored with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (Oxford University Press), and Knowledge and Liberation (Snow Lion Publications).

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