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Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime (Taschenbuch)

von Stephen Batchelor (Autor) "BEHIND THE GILDED SWAYAMBU STUPA, WHOSE PAINTED eyes gaze over the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, is a nondescript building with a single shabby room, empty..." (mehr)

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Taschenbuch: 208 Seiten
Verlag: Riverhead Trade; Auflage: Reissue (1. Juli 2001)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1573228761
ISBN-13: 978-1573228763
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 13 x 1,5 cm

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Ex-monk Stephen Batchelor has stirred up controversy in the past by marrying Buddhism to secular agnosticism. Now he goes right to the greatest Buddhist sage after Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna, for corroboration. In this translation of Nagarjuna's seminal work, Verses from the Center, we see Nagarjuna turning a sceptical eye to all dogmatic beliefs. But Batchelor, through his emphasis on the poetics of the work, moves away from polemics to experience--experience of the emptiness that pervades existence and teaches deeper truths. Verses from the Center is an extended meditation on the implications of emptiness and--thanks to Batchelor's limpid rendering-- it prompts a meditative reading. Batchelor's opening essay, half of the book, is one of the best introductions you'll find on Nagarjuna's notion of emptiness, emphasising that emptiness ultimately brings us back to face the world. In a chapter called "Acts", Nagarjuna says:

My acts are irrevocable
Because they have no essence...
Where are the doers of deeds
Absent among their conditions?..
Imagine a magician
Who creates a creature
Who creates other creatures.
Acts I perform are creatures
Who create others.

--Brian Bruya -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Ex-monk Stephen Batchelor has stirred up controversy in the past by marrying Buddhism to secular agnosticism. Now he goes right to the greatest Buddhist sage after Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna, for corroboration. In this translation of Nagarjuna's seminal work, Verses from the Center, we see Nagarjuna turning a skeptical eye to all dogmatic beliefs. But Batchelor, through his emphasis on the poetics of the work, moves away from polemics to experience--experience of the emptiness that pervades existence and teaches deeper truths. Verses from the Center is an extended meditation on the implications of emptiness, and thanks to Batchelor's limpid rendering, it prompts a meditative reading. Batchelor's opening essay, half of the book, is one of the best introductions you'll find on Nagarjuna's notion of emptiness, emphasizing that emptiness ultimately brings us back to face the world. In a chapter called "Acts," Nagarjuna says:

My acts are irrevocable
Because they have no essence...
Where are the doers of deeds
Absent among their conditions?
Imagine a magician
Who creates a creature
Who creates other creatures.
Acts I perform are creatures
Who create others.

--Brian Bruya -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Fascinating, Original, Problematic, 14. Juni 2000

Von	Barnaby A Thieme - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen

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There is much about Stephen Batchelor's new translation of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika which is extremely useful, although the work is also highly problematic. Batchelor has chosen to render Nagarjuna's verses in a very free fashion, communicating what he discerns to be the real message at the heart of the Karikas. He has felt free to omit material, paraphrase, summarize, and reword entire sections with enormous liberty. On the one hand this has freed the text from much of its cryptic quality which has resulted from the metrical constraints of the Sanskrit root text. On the other hand we must rely heavily on Batchelor's interpretation of what Nagarjuna actually meant. What did Nagarjuna actually mean? Batchelor sets forth his interpretive model in the lengthy and challenging introduction. Nagarjuna, Batchelor argues, should be interpreted as belonging to a common philosophical heritage. In comparing Nagarjuna's text with the writings of Taoism and Zen and even the English Romantic poets, Batchelor suggests that the Verses espouse a common insight which is far broader than many modern interpreters have suggested. It seems probable that the unspoken opponent of his exegesis is the Gelukpa and Gelukpa-inspired scholarship which has had much to say about Madhyamaka in recent years, and of which Batchelor himself was once a part when he translated Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Geshe Rabten in Echoes of Voidenss. Here, he briefly presents Dzong-ka-ba's view on Nagarjuna, which Batchelor clearly thinks is overly scholastic and removes the heart of the message by viewing emptiness as primarily a kind of anti-metaphysics. The real message, we learn, is that we are to approach the world with a particular stance of openess and sense of interconnectedness. Emptiness is to be lived in its realization, not realized propositionally. Clearly Batchelor has been deeply influenced by his experiences with Zen in this approach, and it has much to offer in considering the relationship of emptiness to the endeavor of liberation. This work is obviously highly personal, and highly personalizes the process of meditation on emptiness. That being said, I found the book to contain significant problems. In my opinion it behooves Batchelor to spend more energy in the introduction in justifying his beliefs. I do not see why we should necessarily believe that Nagarjuna is best read through the existential model that Batchelor suggests. This certainly flies in the face of many of his Indian commentators such as Aryadeva, Chandrakirti, Buddhapalita, and Bhavaviveka. I see no reason to assume that, on the basis of stylistic and rhetorical affinities, we should view Nagarjuna as belonging to the family of thought that somehow includes Chuang-Tzu and Keats rather than as belonging to the milieu in which he lived and wrote. "Verses" is clearly more of a presentation of Batchelor's views than an argument on their behalf, so while I personally resonated with much of what he said I found myself wondering what justified Batchelor in translating this work so freely. It is more a collaboration than a translation, and I'm not convinced that Nagarjuna needs a collaborator. If you are looking for a translation which is not extremely demanding philosophcially, this might be the version for you. Likewise if you are interested in a free, interesting and challenging reading of Nagarjuna, this book has much to offer. Be warned, however, that if you are interested in Nagarjuna's actual words, this is not the book for you.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Another Batchelor masterpiece..., 20. Mai 2000

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I must admit that I realized only after a complete first read that this book had made its amazing impression on me. I thought as I was reading it that it was, well, interesting. It was only after reading it that I realized I was seeing life through an entirely different lens. It was an indescribable, incredible experience. I've read it twice since, and each time the feeling grows stronger. The book has allowed me to begin to experience emptiness, rather than try to understand emptiness.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Difficult, but rewarding., 5. Mai 2000

Von	G. Merritt (Boulder, CO) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen (REAL NAME)

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This was a challenging book only because Buddhist emptiness is difficult for me to understand. There are fleeting moments in his book, however, when Batchelor makes the concept of emptiness seem within my mental reach. "The silence of emptiness allows one to hear more clearly the cries of the world" (p. 78). Emptiness, he writes, is learning to live moment by moment without "fixating." "Fixating tends to leave one morally numb and indifferent" (p. 78).

This book is divided into two parts, Batchelor's 80-page meditation on Nagarjuna's second century C. E. "Verses from the Center," followed by Batchelor's translation of that work. Nagarjuna's poetry, Batchelor writes, offers insights for "anyone concerned with the questions of what it means to live a free and awake life today" (p. xvi). This book is difficult, but there are enough insightful gems along the way to make it worthwhile reading.

G. Merrritt

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Nagarjuna's philisophy of the "middle way" can be difficult. It has usually been left to discussion by academics. Lesen Sie weiter...

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