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The relationships between reason, spiritual insight or intuition, and the fuller dimensions of religiousity such as human love and social action are matters of concern to many philosophers of religion investigating many different religious traditions. In rational faiths like Buddhism and Hindu Advaita Vedanta the relationship between these different yet essential facets of each religious tradition take on a special significance, and in the case of a religio-philosophical tradition like Madhyamika Buddhism — where the faculty of reason is explicitly linked to the insight of an ultimate reality and where insight is subsumed into a more overarching religious awakening such as we see in the universal vehicle or Mahayana — the relationships and problems associated with them become particularly pronounced.
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Fenner, P. (1990). Introduction. In: The Ontology of the Middle Way. Studies of Classical India, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0547-4_1
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