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Other Lives : Mind and World in Indian Buddhism /

Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., argues in his work The Tw...

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Autor principal: Kachru, Sonam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. PRESENTATION, OBJECTS, REPRESENTATIONS
  • 2. HOW NOT TO USE DREAMS
  • 3. THE PLACE OF DREAMS
  • 4. COSMOLOGY FOR PHILOSOPHERS
  • 5. MAKING UP WORLDS
  • 6. TRANSPARENT THINGS, THROUGH WHICH THE PAST SHINES
  • 7. WAKING UP AND LIVING ASLEEP
  • CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF PAST SYSTEMS OF POSSIBILITY
  • APPENDIX: THE TWENTY VERSES OF VASUBANDHU IN TRANSLATION
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX