Un text budhist din secolul IV - Discriminarea între mijloc şi extreme (traducere adnotată). II – Secţiunile II şi III
A Buddhist Text from the 4th Century - The Discrimination between Middle and Extremes (An Annotated Romanian Translation). II – Sections II and III

Summary/Abstract: The Discrimination between Middle and Extremes is one of the major Mahāyāna Buddhist texts, usually ascribed to the Vijñānavāda tradition. The second chapter deals with soteriological matters, being an analytical exposition of the path. The chapter shows the blending of Mahāyāna’s ontology with the Abhidharmic phenomenological analysis, which is one of the definitory features of Vijñānavāda. It has a high level of technicality, being tributary to the very alambicated phenomenological classifications of the Abhidharmic masters. Equally technical is the third chapter, dealing with different perspectives of considering the reality. It approaches a metaphysical issue, the reality (a properly Mahāyānist issue), by making use of some specifically Hīnayānist systems of categories.

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