An Introduction to Indian Philosophy by Bartley, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half-Title Series Dedication Title Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction

Notes

1 Foundations of Brahmanism: Vedas and Upaniṣads

The primacy of substance Some illustrative passages from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad Selections from Chāndogya Upaniṣad, chapter 6 Selections from the Taittirīya Upaniṣad Selections from the Aitareya Upaniṣad (ātman as primary substrate) Selections from the Kaṭha Upaniṣad Notes

Part I Buddhist Traditions

2 The Buddhist Ethos

What Buddhists believe The Four Noble Truths Anattā: No substance; no soul; no self that really matters Notes

3 Abhidharma Buddhism

The Monastic context Ontology Mind and world Ethical consequentiality and moral values The personalists (Pudgalavāda) Notes

4 Sautrāntika Buddhism

Ontology Ethical consequentiality Dignāga Apoha: The ‘exclusion’ theory of linguistic functioning Self-awareness of mental events The Ālambana-Parīkṣā Dharmakīrti Dharmakīrti’s metaphysics The impossibility of permanence Logic The authority of the Buddha’s teachings Notes

5 Madhyamaka Buddhism

Nāgārjuna Emptiness Verses from Nāgārjuna’s Ratnāvalī The Refutation of Objections Notes

6 Yogācāra Buddhism

Buddhist idealism: Mind-only Extracts from Vasubandhu’s ‘Twenty Verses Proving that only Mental Phenomena are Real’ (Vijñapti-mātratā-siddhi) An interpretation of the Thirty Verses on Consciousness Meditation Notes

Part II Hindu Traditions

7 Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika

The world at our fingertips Metaphysics: The system of categories (padārtha) The category of substance: Dravya Subjects of experience (ātman) The category Guṇa (qualities) The category Sāmānya (common properties) Samavāya (the inherence relation) The category Viśeṣa (ultimate particularity) The category Karman (motions) The category Abhāva (absences) Epistemology: The Pramāṇas – Perception, reasoning and testimony Knowledge by perception (pratyakṣa) Anumāna: Knowledge by reasoning or inference Śabda: Testimony and the transmission of true information Words and sentences Notes

8 Sāṃkhya and Yoga

The Sāṃkhya vision Causal processes The human condition: Bondage to material causality The Yoga vision Note

9 The Mīmāṃsā Vision

The authority of the Vedas (Veda-prāmāṇyam) Words and sentences Kumārilabhaṭṭa’s realism The perceptual process and our experience of the world Ślokavārttika IV, 111–120 The nature of ritual agents Notes

10 Vedānta

11 Advaita Vedānta

Liberating gnosis and disengagement from the world Śaṃkara’s via negativa Maṇḍana Miśra Padmapāda, Prakāśātman, Vimuktātman and Sarvajñātman Śrī Harṣa and his Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya Scriptural exegesis and the significance of coreferential constructions Illustrative extracts from Śaṃkara’s works The ineffability of the brahman Śaṃkara and the Buddhists Notes

12 Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

The religious context The formation of the Śrī Vaiṣṇava tradition Knowing God only from Scripture Response to Advaita The individual self: Agency Individual selves: consciousness The soul–body model The soul–body model and the interpretation of scripture Notes

13 Dvaita Vedānta and Madhva

The examination of Viṣṇu’s nature Difference Direct epistemological realism The trouble with avidyā Note

14 Tantra and some Śaiva Thinkers

Śaiva Siddhānta dualism Three categories: Pati, Paśu and Pāśa Rāmakaṇṭha on the enduring individual soul and its experiences Personal agency Śākta Śaiva traditions Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta Absolute idealism The intrinsic dynamism of consciousness: Prakāśa and vimarśa Reinterpretation of Śaiva Siddhānta concepts The Krama cult and the Pratyabhijñā philosophy Krama practice Illustrative extracts from Īśvarapratyabhijñā-kārika and commentaries Fifteen Verses on Consciousness Notes

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