Gold Paving the Great Way

Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53800-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Featuring close studies of Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosabhasya, Vyakhyayukti, Vimsatika, and Trisvabhavanirdesa, among other works, this book identifies recurrent treatments of causality and scriptural interpretation that unify distinct strands of thought under a single, coherent Buddhist philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gold, Jonathan C.

Gold, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Mahayana Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Summarizing Vasubandhu: Should a Buddhist Philosopher Have a Philosophy?
2. Against the Times: Vasubandhu's Critique of His Main Abhidharma Rivals
3. Merely Cause and Result: The Imagined Self and the Literalistic Mind
4. Knowledge, Language, and the Interpretation of Scripture: Vasubandhu's Opening to the Mahayana
5. Vasubandhu's Yogacara: Enshrining the Causal Line in the Three Natures
6. Agency and the Ethics of Massively Cumulative Causality
Conclusion: Buddhist Causal Framing for the Modern World
Appendix A. Against the Existence of the Three Times
Appendix B. Brief Disproof of the Self
Appendix C. Discussion of "View" (Drsti)
Appendix D. Against the Eternality of Atoms (Paramanu)
Appendix E. The Proper Mode of Exposition on Conventional and Ultimate
Appendix F. The Twenty Verses on Appearance and Memory
Appendix G. The Three Natures Exposition
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Gold is associate professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University and the author of The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (2007).