Buddhism and Deconstruction Towards a Comparative Semiotics

Introduction: The pursuit of signs; Chapter 1 Three grades of understanding in the H?nay?na analytic system: A structural study of the list of seventy-five factors; Chapter 2 Undoing the H?nay?na Onto-epistemological categories: A semiotic approach to the list of eighteen points about emptiness; Chapter 3 Three ways of looking at the un-arisen: The Same in Kum?raj?va’s Madhyamaka system; Chapter 4 Dialectic of construction and de-construction in the Vijñ?nav?da system: The Same in Param?rtha’s Shèlùn system; Chapter 5 Deconstruction of time in Dharmap?la’s commentary on ?ryadeva’s Treatise in Four Hundred Verses: The Same in Xuánzàng’s F?xiàng system; Chapter 6 Three ways of looking at the un-arisen in French deconstruction: Derrida’s conception of the Same; Chapter 7 Afterword: Three semiotic models;

Biography

Wang, Dr Youxuan; Youxuan, Wang

'All in all, this is an expert and often brilliant work.' -Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

'I found Wang's project most exciting and valuable...the book is an excellent addition to contemporary studies of Buddhist and comparative philosophy.' - Philosophy East and West