Paving the great way : Vasubandhu's unifying Buddhist philosophy /

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: hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gold, Jonathan C., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York ; Chichester, England : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Vasubandhu.
Buddhist philosophy.
Philosophie bouddhique.
PHILOSOPHY > Eastern.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Summarizing Vasubandhu: should a Buddhist philosopher have a philosophy?
  • Against the times: Vasubandhu's critique of his main Abhidharma rivals
  • Merely cause and effect: the imagined self and the literalistic mind
  • Knowledge, language, and the interpretation of scripture: Vasubandhu's opening to the Mahayana
  • Vasubandhu's yogacara: enshrining the causal link in the three natures
  • Agency and the ethics of massively cumulative causality
  • Conclusion: Buddhist causal framing for the modern world.

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