Steven M. Emmanuel is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Logic of Revelation (1996) and editor of two previous volumes with Blackwell: The Guide to the Modern Philosophers: From Descartes to Nietzsche (2001) and Modern Philosophy: An Anthology (2002). In 2008, he produced and directed an award-winning documentary film entitled Making Peace with Viet Nam.

A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy is the most comprehensive single volume on the subject available; it offers the very latest scholarship to create a wide-ranging survey of the most important ideas, problems, and debates in the history of Buddhist philosophy.
* Encompasses the broadest treatment of Buddhist philosophy available, covering social and political thought, meditation, ecology and contemporary issues and applications
* Each section contains overviews and cutting-edge scholarship that expands readers understanding of the breadth and diversity of Buddhist thought
* Broad coverage of topics allows flexibility to instructors in creating a syllabus
* Essays provide valuable alternative philosophical perspectives on topics to those available in Western traditions

Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xviii
List of Abbreviations xix
Introduction 1
Steven M. Emmanuel
Part I Conceptual Foundations 11
1 The Philosophical Context of Gotama's Thought 13
Stephen J. Laumakis
2 Dukkha, Non-Self, and the Teaching on the Four "Noble Truths" 26
Peter Harvey
3 The Conditioned Co-arising of Mental and Bodily Processes within Life and Between Lives 46
Peter Harvey
Part II Major Schools of Buddhist Thought 69
4 Theravâda 71
Andrew Skilton
5 Indian Mahâyâna Buddhism 86
James Blumenthal
6 Tibetan Mahâyâna and Vajrayâna 99
Douglas Duckworth
7 East Asian Buddhism 110
Ronald S. Green
Part III Themes in Buddhist Philosophy 127
A. Metaphysics 129
8 Metaphysical Issues in Indian Buddhist Thought 129
Jan Westerhoff
9 Emptiness in Mahâyâna Buddhism: Interpretations and Comparisons 151
David Burton
10 Practical Applications of the Perfection of Wisdom Stra and Madhyamaka in the Kâlacakra Tantric Tradition 164
Vesna A. Wallace
11 The Huayan Metaphysics of Totality 180
Alan Fox
12 Forms of Emptiness in Zen 190
Bret W. Davis
13 Between the Horns of Idealism and Realism: The Middle Way of Madhyamaka 214
Graham Priest
B. Epistemology 223
14 A Survey of Early Buddhist Epistemology 223
John J. Holder
15 Reason and Experience in Buddhist Epistemology 241
Christian Coseru
16 The Three Truths in Tiantai Buddhism 256
Brook Ziporyn
17 "Spiritual Exercise" and Buddhist Epistemologists in India and Tibet 270
Matthew T. Kapstein
18 Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Enlightenment: The Epistemological Issues in a Key Debate 290
Tom J. F. Tillemans
C. Language and Logic 307
19 Language and Logic in Indian Buddhist Thought 307
Brendan S. Gillon
20 Buddhist Philosophy of Logic 320
Koji Tanaka
21 Candrakîrti on the Limits of Language and Logic 331
Karen C. Lang
22 On the Value of Speaking and Not Speaking: Philosophy of Language in Zen Buddhism 349
Steven Heine
23 The Voice of Another: Speech, Responsiveness, and Buddhist Philosophy 366
Richard F. Nance
D. Philosophy of Mind 377
24 Mind in Theravâda Buddhism 377
Maria Heim
25 Philosophy of Mind in Buddhism 395
Richard P. Hayes
26 Cognition, Phenomenal Character, and Intentionality in Tibetan Buddhism 405
Jonathan Stoltz
27 The Non-Self Theory and Problems in Philosophy of Mind 419
Joerg Tuske
E. Ethics and Moral Philosophy 429
28 Ethical Thought in Indian Buddhism 429
Christopher W. Gowans
29 Character, Disposition, and the Qualities of the Arahats as a Means of Communicating Buddhist Philosophy in the Suttas 452
Sarah Shaw
30 Compassion and the Ethics of Violence 466
Stephen Jenkins
31 Buddhist Ethics and Western Moral Philosophy 476
William Edelglass
F. Social and Political Philosophy 491
32 The Enlightened Sovereign: Buddhism and Kingship in India and Tibet 491
Georgios T. Halkias
33 Political Interpretations of the Lotus Stra 512
James Mark Shields
34 Socially Engaged Buddhism: Emerging Patterns of Theory and Practice 524
Christopher S. Queen
35 Comparative Refl ections on Buddhist Political Thought: Aúoka, Shambhala and the General Will 536
David Cummiskey
Part IV Buddhist Meditation 553
36 Buddhist Meditation: Theory and Practice 555
Charles Goodman
37 Seeing Mind, Being Body: Contemplative Practice and Buddhist Epistemology 572
Anne Carolyn Klein
38 From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Towards a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science 585
Jake H. Davis and Evan Thompson
Part V Contemporary Issues and Applications 599
39 Buddhism and Environmental Ethics 601
Simon P. James
40 Buddhism and Biomedical Issues 613
Damien Keown
41 War and Peace in Buddhist Philosophy 631
Sallie B. King
42 Buddhist Perspectives on Human Rights 651
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
43 Buddhist Perspectives on Gender Issues 663
Rita M. Gross
44 Diversity Matters: Buddhist Refl ections on the Meaning of Difference 675
Peter D. Hershock
Further Reading 693
Index 696