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Document Details : Title: Upādāna and Svabhāva Subtitle: Their Coagency in the Entrapment of the Mind. A Madhyamaka Perspective Author(s): COLLOBERT, Catherine Journal: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Volume: 45 Date: 2022 Pages: 1-37 DOI: 10.2143/JIABS.45.0.3291575 Abstract : This paper explores the relation between two key concepts in Madhyamaka philosophy: upādāna and svabhāva. This relation has been, as it were, neglected in the literature. This paper aims to address the neglect by offering a systematic and novel study on the relationship between upādāna and svabhāva in Madhyamaka philosophy and to revisit their respective meanings accordingly. It argues that svabhāva is the cognitive result that arises from upādāna. It shows that, as the mental operation of appropriation, upādāna is the source of the gap between the way phenomena appear and the way they are. The lack of correspondence between how we experience phenomena, and how they are, leads to the experience of suffering. By explicating the mutual dependence between upādāna and svabhāva, this paper explains why the cessation of upādāna amounts to the cessation of substantial cognition, and, accordingly, to the realization of emptiness, in other words to freedom from suffering. |
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