This volume collects jay garfield s essays on madhyamaka, yogacara, buddhist ethics and crosscultural hermeneutics. Self help and business book summaries for busy people that need knowledge now. Sep 23, 2008 jose ignacio cabezon is a professor of religious studies and the x1v dalai lama endowed chair in tibetan buddhism and cultural studies at the university of california, santa barbara. Lateral thinking is a technique where you vere from the normal or linear straight path way of problem solving to a nonlinear or lateral thinking. But whereas creativity is too often only the description of a result, lateral thinking is the description of a process. The first part addresses madhyamaka, supplementing garfield s translation of fundamental wisdom of the middle way, a foundational philosophical text by the buddhist saint nagarjuna.
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He originated the concept of lateral thinking and developed formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking. Afterwards, the individual thinker or group evaluates the benefits, appropriateness, risks, and. This volume collects jay garfields essays on madhyamaka, yogacara, buddhist ethics and crosscultural hermeneutics. The purpose of the framework is to divide the total thinking process into definite stages. The hong kong polytechnic university subject description form. Lateral thinking at school were instructed how to think vertically.
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