The Concealed Art of the Soul by Ganeri, Jonardon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Part I. Soul-searchers and Sooth-sayers

1. Hidden in the Cave: The Upanisadic Self

1.1 The reluctance of the sage 1.2 Metaphors of the cave 1.3 What conceals the self? 1.4 The self is not an object of consciousness 1.5 The hidden connection between one self and all 1.6 Finding the self in the periphery of thinking

2. Dangerous Truths: The Buddha on Silence, Secrecy and Snakes

2.1 In defence of pleasure 2.2 The simile of the snake 2.3 The simile of the raft 2.4 The Buddha’s silences 2.5 Is the truth of merely instrumental value? 2.6 Truths, two and four

3. A Cloak of Clever Words: The Deconstruction of Deceit in the

Part II. Exhortations to Enlightenment

4. Words That Burn: Why Did the Buddha Say What He Did?

5. Words That Break: Can an Upaniṣad State the Truth?

Part III. A Selfless Person’s Sense of Self

6. The Imperfect Reality of Persons

6.1 Suffering: the cause and the cure 6.2 Was the Buddha the first bundle theorist? 6.3 Why persons are not merely conceptual fictions 6.4 The objectivity of person-involving conceptual schemes 6.5 Two problems for Vasubandhu’s Reductionism 6.6 The soul’s footprints

7. Self as Performance

7.1 Three readings of the ‘no-self’ thesis 7.2 Āryadeva’s argument against souls 7.3 Does it matter that this pain is my pain? 7.4 Candrakīrti against the realists 7.5 Claiming experiences as one’s own 7.6 Can we shed the constructed sense of self? 7.7 Minds and the boundaries between them 7.8 Body-swapping and survival

Appendices Texts and Abbreviations Bibliography Chronological Table of Main Thinkers and Texts Index Locorum General Index Footnotes

Introduction chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 appendix