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Index
Cover
The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Analytical Table of Contents
Diagrams of Schools and Thinkers
Introduction
1. Buddhist Philosophy in India: A Wheel Ever Turning
2. Philosophy as a Game
3. Factors Determining the Game
a. Arguments
b. Sacred texts
c. Meditative practice
4. Narrating the Game: How to Structure the Material
5. The Sources of the Game
a. The bases of Buddhist philosophy
b. Debates
c. Commentaries
d. Doxographies
6. The Game’s View of the Game
1: Abhidharma
1. Introducing the Abhidharma
a. Matrices
b. Question-and-answer format
c. Providing a comprehensive theory
2. The Question of Authenticity
3. The Abhidharma Schools
a. Mahāsa m: ghika
b. Sthaviranikāya: Theravāda
c. Sthaviranikāya: Pudgalavāda
d. Sthaviranikāya: Sarvāstivāda
e. Sthaviranikāya: Sautrāntika
2: Madhyamaka
1. The Rise of the Mahāyāna and Its Relation to Buddhist Philosophy
2. The Madhyamaka School
3. The Teachings of the Perfection of Wisdom
a. Criticism of the Abhidharma project
b. The doctrine of illusionism
c. An explicit acceptance of contradictions
4. Key Themes of Nāgārjuna’s Thought
a. Nāgārjuna and the criticism of the Abhidharma project
b. Illusionism in Nāgārjuna’s thought
c. Contradictions and Nāgārjuna’s thought
5. The Commentators
a. Buddhapālita
b. Bhāviveka
c. Candrakīrti
6. The Great Synthesizers: Śāntarak:sita and Kamalaśīla
7. Madhyamaka and Nyāya
3: Yogācāra
1. Five Stages of Yogācāra’s Development
a. Stage 1: The early Yogācāra sūtras
b. Stages 2 and 3: Maitreya and Asa : nga
c. Stage 4: Vasubandhu
d. Stage 5: Later Yogācāra
2. Proofs of Buddhist Doctrines
a. Rebirth
b. Other minds
c. Momentariness
3. Key Yogācāra Concepts
a. cittamātra
b. ālayavijñāna and the eight types of consciousness
c. trisvabhāva
d. svasam: vedana
e. Three turnings
f. tathāgatagarbha and Yogācāra
4. Factors That Shaped Yogācāra Philosophy
a. Argumentative factors
b. Textual factors
c. Meditative factors
5. Yogācāra and Other Schools of BuddhistbPhilosophy
6. Yogācāra and Vedānta
4: The School of Din˙nāga and Dharmakīrti
1. The Lives of Din˙nāga and Dharmakīrti
2. Epistemology
3. Inference
4. Metaphysics
5. Language
6. Scriptural Authority and Yogic Perception
a. Scriptural authority
b. Yogic perception
7. How to Classify Din˙nāga’s and Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy
8. The School of Din˙nāga and Dharmakīrti and Its Relation to Mīmā m: sā
a. Mīmām: sā epistemology
b. Mīmām: sā philosophy of language
c. Mīmā m: sā, historiography, and history
9. The End of Buddhist Philosophy in India
a. Śāntideva
b. Atiśa Dīpa m: karaśrījñāna
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
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