Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World

How is constructive cultural exchange possible when traditions hold such contradictory views? Jingjing Li brings Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara Buddhism into dialogue to explore the concept of essence in this open access book. While phenomenology and Yogacara Buddhism are both k...

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Correlative Non-dualism
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Transformation
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Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World
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title_full Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World
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Husserl’s Phenomenology
Chinese Yogacara
Xuanzang
Kuiji
Self-Knowledge
Other Minds
Non-Conceptualism
Essence
Transcendental Idealism
Correlative Non-dualism
Agency
Awakening
Transformation
Comparative Philosophy
Orientalism
Multiculturalism
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Other Minds
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Essence
Transcendental Idealism
Correlative Non-dualism
Agency
Awakening
Transformation
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Orientalism
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