title: The interrelationship between consciousness and sensuality in Nāgārjuna’s philosophy
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metadata.value: Lepekhov, Sergey Yu.
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metadata.value: 2021-01-25T13:54:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-01-25T13:54:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Lepekhov S. Yu. The interrelationship between consciousness and sensuality in Nāgārjuna’s philosophy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2020, vol. 36, issue 4, pp. 751–765.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.412
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/22817
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The interrelationship between consciousness and sensuality is a significant problem in many
  philosophical systems. The peculiarities of religious philosophy consists in the congruence
  of using argumentation with the basic religious dogmata, which are unchangeable and uncritiqued.
  This aspect, in turn, stimulates the development of exegetics and hermeneutics. In
  comparison with the Western philosophy, the particularity of Indian and Buddhist philosophy
  infers a larger quantity of polemical materials directed against the representatives of other
  competing schools. This article discusses the formation of the concept of “sensuality” in various
  Buddhist schools (Theravāda, Sarvastivāda, Madhyamaka) and the mutual conditionality
  of the sensual and mental (nāma-rūpa) in the conceptions of Theravādins and Sarvastivādins
  is noted. The peculiarities of using the terms “Hīnayāna” and “Hīnayānist” in Mahāyāna texts
  are explained. The representatives of Theravāda and Madhyamaka distinguished the terms
  of “clear sense” and “hidden sense”, which, in turn, led to the appearance of the concept of “two truths” in Nāgārjuna’s philosophy. The particularities of his argumentation regarding
  sensuality’s absence of self-nature (rūpa) and his analysis of the various aspects of reality (including
  illusions, perceived as real ones) make it possible, which Nāgārjuna could admit, that
  consciousness could be more real in comparison with sensuality. It is concluded that there are
  no clear statements by Nāgārjuna about consciousness having an ontological status. In the
  author’s opinion, the absence of a clear division between “two truths” makes it possible to use
  this concept in social practice. The author’s translation to Russian of one of Nāgārjuna’s hymns
  “The praising of inconceivable” (Acintyastava) from Sanskrit and from Tibetan is provided.
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metadata.value: The research was carried out within the state assignment of FASO Russia (project XII.187.1.4 “Cultural
  heritage of the Transbaikalian peoples and contiguous regions of East Asia in the system of spiritual
  values of Russia”, no. АААА-А17-117021310267-5).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 36; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Buddhism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Тheravāda
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sarvastivāda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Madhyamaka
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nāma-rūpa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nāgārjuna
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Acintyastava
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The interrelationship between consciousness and sensuality in Nāgārjuna’s philosophy
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metadata.value: Article
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