Jonathan C Gold
Biographic Data
| ID | 489343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan C Gold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gold |
| SIGNATURE | GOLD J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6703-7671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics
As philosophers have increasingly shied away from belief in the soul, the Buddhist doctrine of “no-self” (anātman)—the idea that there is no real enduring entity to underpin our commonsense notion of a continuous, living being—has garnered growing respect. Monima Chadha’s Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics brings classical Buddhist philosophical positions into vigorous engagement with current perspectives. Budd…
The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology
This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and rejects, with apparent universality, “attachment to views.” On the other hand, Buddhist traditions of practice…
A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real, by Glenn Wallis
A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real, by Glenn Wallis. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 232 pp., Hb. £90.00, ISBN-13: 9781474283557; Pb. £26.99, ISBN-13: 9781350155213
Pyrrho’s Buddha on Duḥkha and the Liberation from Views
This article presents a rereading of Buddhist scriptures from the Pāli Nikāyas in the light of Christopher Beckwith’s 2015 theory that Pyrrho professed early Buddhist ideas. This changes, above all, how we read one of the central terms in Buddhism, dukkha/duḥkha (usually “suffering,” now “unreliable” or “precarious”). I argue that many scriptures make better sense with Pyrrho’s reading and, moreover, that it reveals a depth of wisdom in many othe…
Wholesome Mind Ethics: A Buddhist Paradigm
The Infinite, Within Limits
The Culture of the Book in Tibet – By Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Resurrecting Candrakīrti: Disputes in the Tibetan Creation of PrāsaṄgika – By Kevin A. Vose
Mountain Doctrine: Tibet’s Fundamental Treatise on Other‐Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix – Edited by Kevin Vose
Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya’s Madhyāntavibhāga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham – Translated by The Dharmachakra Translation Committee
The Essence of other‐Emptiness by Tāranātha – Translated and Annotated by Jeffrey Hopkins
Yogācāra Strategies against Realism: Appearances (ākti) and Metaphors (upacāra)
This paper describes and elucidates two philosophical parallels: the first between two early Yogācāra Buddhist positions, and the second between these positions and a contemporary discussion in analytic philosophy. The two Yogācāra positions are (1) that reality is a mere appearance (ākti); and (2) that all language is metaphorical (upacāra). First, the distinctive Yogācāra belief in the reality of mere appearances is clarified by carefully disti…
No Outside, No Inside: Duality, Reality and Vasubandhu's Illusory Elephant
Some of the basic terminology of Yogācāra philosophy needs reevaluation. Whereas commentaries almost universally gloss the term dvaya (‘duality’) with some version of the phrase grāhya grāhaka ca (lit. ‘grasped and grasper’, but usually translated as ‘subject and object’), in fact this gloss is absent from the earliest strata. The term and its gloss are derived from separate streams of Yogācāra reasoning—one from discussions of linguistic concept…
Sa-Skya Pandita’s Buddhist Argument For Linguistic Study
Yogācāra Strategies against Realism: Appearances (ākti) and Metaphors (upacāra)
This paper describes and elucidates two philosophical parallels: the first between two early Yogācāra Buddhist positions, and the second between these positions and a contemporary discussion in analytic philosophy. The two Yogācāra positions are (1) that reality is a mere appearance (ākti); and (2) that all language is metaphorical (upacāra). First, the distinctive Yogācāra belief in the reality of mere appearances is clarified by carefully disti…
Sa-Skya Pandita’s Buddhist Argument For Linguistic Study
No Outside, No Inside: Duality, Reality and Vasubandhu's Illusory Elephant
Some of the basic terminology of Yogācāra philosophy needs reevaluation. Whereas commentaries almost universally gloss the term dvaya (‘duality’) with some version of the phrase grāhya grāhaka ca (lit. ‘grasped and grasper’, but usually translated as ‘subject and object’), in fact this gloss is absent from the earliest strata. The term and its gloss are derived from separate streams of Yogācāra reasoning—one from discussions of linguistic concept…
Yogācāra Strategies against Realism: Appearances (ākti) and Metaphors (upacāra)
This paper describes and elucidates two philosophical parallels: the first between two early Yogācāra Buddhist positions, and the second between these positions and a contemporary discussion in analytic philosophy. The two Yogācāra positions are (1) that reality is a mere appearance (ākti); and (2) that all language is metaphorical (upacāra). First, the distinctive Yogācāra belief in the reality of mere appearances is clarified by carefully disti…
Mountain Doctrine: Tibet’s Fundamental Treatise on Other‐Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix – Edited by Kevin Vose
Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya’s Madhyāntavibhāga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham – Translated by The Dharmachakra Translation Committee
The Essence of other‐Emptiness by Tāranātha – Translated and Annotated by Jeffrey Hopkins
The Culture of the Book in Tibet – By Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Resurrecting Candrakīrti: Disputes in the Tibetan Creation of PrāsaṄgika – By Kevin A. Vose
Wholesome Mind Ethics: A Buddhist Paradigm
The Infinite, Within Limits
The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology
This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and rejects, with apparent universality, “attachment to views.” On the other hand, Buddhist traditions of practice…
A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real, by Glenn Wallis
A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real, by Glenn Wallis. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 232 pp., Hb. £90.00, ISBN-13: 9781474283557; Pb. £26.99, ISBN-13: 9781350155213
Pyrrho’s Buddha on Duḥkha and the Liberation from Views
This article presents a rereading of Buddhist scriptures from the Pāli Nikāyas in the light of Christopher Beckwith’s 2015 theory that Pyrrho professed early Buddhist ideas. This changes, above all, how we read one of the central terms in Buddhism, dukkha/duḥkha (usually “suffering,” now “unreliable” or “precarious”). I argue that many scriptures make better sense with Pyrrho’s reading and, moreover, that it reveals a depth of wisdom in many othe…
Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics
As philosophers have increasingly shied away from belief in the soul, the Buddhist doctrine of “no-self” (anātman)—the idea that there is no real enduring entity to underpin our commonsense notion of a continuous, living being—has garnered growing respect. Monima Chadha’s Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics brings classical Buddhist philosophical positions into vigorous engagement with current perspectives. Budd…
Philosophy (11 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (10 works) · Buddhism (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · History (6 works) · Citation (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)