Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy

Junjiro Takakusu (1866-1945), was simultaneously appointed Professor at Tokyo University and Director of Tokyo School of Foreign Languages. He was elected President of Tokyo University in 1930.
In the 11th century A.D. Hinayana was thriving in Ceylon, Burma Siam, Siam, and Cambodia. Mystic Buddhism developed primarily in Tibet and Mahayana grew in China. The whole of Buddhism was made the active and living faith of the majority of Japanese people in Japan. This study is about Japanese Buddhism because the entire Buddhist tradition has been preserved in Japan. Although the author presents Buddhist philosophy as an ideological sequence, it is not the sequence of ideas. It is the systematization and organization of different schools of thought in order to make it easier. The book is divided into 15 chapters and covers different schools of Buddhist Philosophy. The author has divided these schools under two headings: the schools of Negative Rationalism (i.e. Religion of Dialectic Investigation, and Schools of Introspective Intuitionism. The Religion of Meditative Experiment. These schools are described by the author in a scientific and detailed manner.