Malcolm Keating
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2024
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Welcome to New Books and Philosophy, a channel on the New Books Network.
I'm Malcolm Keating, and today we'll be talking to Jan Westerhoff about Chandrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way, published by University Press in 2024, as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series.
Welcome to New Books and Philosophy, Jan.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's a pleasure.
Let's dive in.
Your book is, I just said, is a guide to Chandrakirti's introduction to the middle way or the Manjimaka Avatara.
Can you start with the motivation for writing this guide?
Why this person and why this text?
Wonderful.
We'll talk about some of those interpretations, Tibetan interpretations and things as we go along.
But first, can we back up and ask
how you got interested in Chandrakirti's work.
Buddhism is a vast subject area.
How did you get to Chandrakirti's text?
Yeah, you've mentioned Tibet a few times, so maybe we should talk about that a little bit for the listeners.
So when we're thinking about Buddhism, this is a guides to philosophy looking at sort of canonical texts.
Is Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, do they have the same canon?
How should listeners understand the relationship between what you're calling Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Buddhism, especially when we think about Chandra Kirti and his role in a
Great.
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