The Buddhist Concept of Selflessness According to Je Tsongkhapa
1 UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE AND HUMAN SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY PhD PROGRAMME Adriana Toledo Piza The Buddhist Concept of Selflessness According to Je Tsongkhapa São Paulo 2018 2 Adriana Toledo Piza The Buddhist Concept of Selflessness According to Je Tsongkhapa This thesis is presented at the PhD program on Philosophy of the School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the supervision of Prof. PhD João Vergílio Gallerani Cuter São Paulo 2018 3 Acknowledgements I would like to express my sincere appreciation, first of all, to my doctoral advisor, Prof. PhD João Vergílio Gallerani Cutter, for his earnest inspiriting and constructive critiques, as well as for his constant support in all possible manners to my endeavors throughout the whole doctorate program. I also wish to express my very deep gratitude to Ven. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, Director and principal Professor at the Center for Higher Tibetan Studies Rabten Choeling, in Switzerland, and to Prof. PhD Wilhelm Essler, from the Department of Philosophy of the Goethe University Frankfurt, in Germany, for having guided me through the vastness and depths of Buddhist philosophy, as well as for their valuable advices and assistance to my efforts for carrying out an academical research on this subject. I am particularly grateful to Marina Simen and Peter Caccivio for their precious financial support, which enabled me to attend lectures and courses both at the Goethe University Frankfurt, in Germany, and at the Center for Higher Tibetan Studies Rabten Choeling, in Switzerland, during the years 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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