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

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gold Klappentext Featuring close studies of Vasubandhüs 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 Zusammenfassung 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 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

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• Authors: Jonathan Gold, Jonathan C. Gold, Jonathan C. (Princeton University) Gold
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2016
• EAN: 9780231168274
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16827-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, Buddhism, Religion & beliefs, Philosophy of religion, Buddhism; religion