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Paving the Great Way - Vasubandhu''s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy

English · Hardback

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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

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Summarizing Vasubandhu: Should a Buddhist Philosopher Have a Philosophy?2. Against the Times: Vasubandhu's Critique of His Main Abhidharma Rivals3. Merely Cause and Result: The Imagined Self and the Literalistic Mind4. Knowledge5. Vasubandhu's Yog?c?ra: Enshrining the Causal Line in the Three Natures6. Agency and the Ethics of Massively Cumulative CausalityConclusion: Buddhist Causal Framing for the Modern WorldAppendix A. Against the Existence of the Three TimesAppendix B. Brief Disproof of the SelfAppendix C. Discussion of "View" (D???i)Appendix D. Against the Eternality of Atoms (Param??u)Appendix E. The Proper Mode of Exposition on Conventional and UltimateAppendix F. The Twenty Verses on Appearance and MemoryAppendix G. The Three Natures ExpositionNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Jonathan C. Gold is assistant professor of religion and Julis Foundation University Preceptor at Princeton University. He is also the author of The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet.

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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

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