Skill and Virtuosity in Buddhist and Daoist Philosophy

Abstract

ethics and epistemology, where it used to motivate hermeneutic practice, to sort out ethical conundra, and to defend a particular approach to moral psychology and phenomenology. It comes to provide an overarching conception of what it is to live well, to live a virtuoso life of skilled perceptual and ethical engagement, and so can be seen as providing one vision of the nature of awakening, particularly in the context of a nondual understanding of samsara and nirvana—an understanding according to which there is no ontological difference between them.