Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy

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"An important book tackling one of the central patterns of Asian thinking." -Religious Studies Review "A valuable book on a topic that is essential to understanding the most important systems of Eastern thought." -Buddhist Christian Studies Many Western philosophers are poorly informed about the issues involved in nonduality since this topic is usually associated with various kinds of absolute idealism in the West or mystical traditions in the East. Increasingly however this topic is finding its way into Western philosophical debates. In this "scholarly but leisurely and very readable" (Spectrum Review) analysis of the philosophies of nondualism of (Hindu) Vedanta Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism Loy extracts what he calls "a core doctrine" of nonduality of seer and seen from these three worldviews and then applies the doctrine in various ways including a critique of Derridas deconstructionism. David Loy is a professor on the Faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University Japan. He has been a student of Zen for over twenty-five years and is a qualified Zen teacher. He is the author of Lack and The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy Existentialism and Buddhism (also available from Humanity Books) as well as numerous articles.