Paving the Great Way : : Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy /

Paving the Great Way : : Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy / / Jonathan C. Gold.

The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (fourth-fifth century C.E.) is known for his critical contribution to Buddhist Abhidharma thought, his turn to the Mahayana tradition, and his concise, influential Yogacara-Vijñanavada texts. Paving the Great Way reveals another dimension of his legacy: his...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Gold, Jonathan C.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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 Effect: The Imagined Self and the Literalistic Mind
  • 4. Knowledge, Language, and the Interpretation of Scripture: Vasubandhu'S Opening to the Mahāyāna
  • 5. Vasubandhu's Yogācāra: 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 (Paramāņu)
  • 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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