This thesis investigates the relationship between analysis and insight in Prasarigika Madhyamika Buddhism. More specifically it asks whether analysis is a necessary and/or a sufficient condition for the generation of insight. The thesis is divided into six chapters which include an introduction, an appendix which outlines Prasangika and Svatantrika views regarding the syllogism (svatantra) and a conclusion. The remaining chapters seek to demonstrate that analysis for the Prasarigika and the Tibetan Geluk-ba school is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the arising of insight. Chapter one is an investigation of certain Western psychological theories which deal with the effects on the mind of cogitating upon contradictions. Though the psychological theories are only suggestive, this chapter will lend support to the claim a) of the Prasaiigika, that analysis generates an altered state of consciousness; and b) that analysis may be a necessary and sufficient condition for the generation of insight. Chapter two seeks to construct a logico-psychological model of how insight is generated. In this model it is argued that insight is a conceptual and intuitive experience: i.e. non-inferential, and that all thought comes via the intuition. This model argues that analysis is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the generation of insight. In chapter three an investigation of the writings of Dzong-ka-ba (Tsong-Kha-pa) is undertaken in order to ascertain how the Tibetan Geluk-ba (dGe lugs pa) school regard the relationship between analysis and insight. The model of chapter two will be compared with the Tibetan Geluk-ba accounts to gauge its explanatory power and correspondence with the Geluk-ba views. Chapter four is an investigation of the writings of certain Western scholars. This investigation seeks to ascertain how these scholars may have regarded the relationship between analysis and insight. The chapter then compares these views with the model developed in chapter two.

Texte remanié de: Doktorarbeit--Geisteswissenschaftliche Facultät der Universität Wien, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Jñānaśīrimitras Kṣaṇabhaṅgādhyāya Kapitel I (Pakṣadharmatādhikāra) : kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Analyse.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Saarbrücken--Universität des Saarlandes, 1993.

Th.--Faculté de lettres--Paris, 1923. / Textes en français, tibétain et sanscrit.

Thesis--Visva-Bharati. / Bibliography: p. 331-334.

Texte remanié de: Doctoral thesis--Lancaster--University, 1985. / Bibliogr. p. 180-185. Index.

Texte remanié de: Thesis--University of Lausanne, 2003. / Contient des extraits de textes tibétains translittérés et les traductions anglaises de ces extraits. Bibliogr. p. XXIII-LXVII.

Thèse--Lettres--Université de Lausanne, 1989. / Contient des extraits du commentaire de "Catuḥśatakavr̥tti" en sanskrit et tibétain par Candrakīrti et Dharmapāla, ainsi que des extraits du commentaire de Dharmapāla en chinois.

Proefschrift--Wijsbegeerte--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1992. / Résumé en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 409-414.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Cambridge--University, 1998. Titre de soutenance : Self, persons and Madhyamaka dialectics : a study of Tsongkhapa's Middle Way philosophy. / Bibliogr. p. 227-239. Index.