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Early Buddhist Teaching as Proto-śūnyavāda

@article{Wynne2015EarlyBT,
  title={Early Buddhist Teaching as Proto-śūnyavāda},
  author={Alexander Wynne},
  journal={Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies},
  year={2015},
  volume={9},
  pages={213-241}
}

• Alexander Wynne
• Published 30 September 2015
• Philosophy
• Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

"Early Buddhist Teaching as Proto-siinyavida
Alexander Wynne
This article argues that the search for a metaphysical foundation to early
Buddhist thought is futile. For if the world of experience is a cognitive
construction, as implied in a number of early discourses, it follows that
thought cannot transcend its limits, and cannot attain an objective picture
of reality. Despite this sceptical anti-realism, the Buddha's focus on the
causes of suffering also suggests that phenomena - although constructed
and ultimately unreal - follow a regular order, and so are in some sense
objectively real. Two orientations to the Buddha's Dhamma can thus be
identified, 'anti-realism' and 'constructed realism', which are roughly
equivalent to what the canonical teachings term 'no view' and 'correct
view'."