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241119: dense, difficult book of essays on evolution these two primary schools of Mahayana buddhism, for serious, academic readers who already know some buddhism, have familiarity with terms, concepts, who have integrated an understanding of similarity and differences of this is how they are allies and rivals, how they have the same buddhist metaphysics, often same sutras quoted, some in opposition to Hindu thought, and this is how they are allies but interpretation show that are so different they are rivals...
briefly, madhymaka is all about the ultimate emptiness of... everything, including itself, the emptiness of emptiness. yogacara is neither first nor only thought that questions how this does not lead to nihilism, with the Yogacara solution seems to be everything is empty... but for our consciousness. because this is philosophical text from the west, particularly anglo, there are references to supporting western philosophers (who came much later and may have bee influenced by). I cannot give this five as my fault of lack of education. this is graduate text, or professional text...
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