Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryavatara

by Williams,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780700710317
• ISBN10: 0700710310
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-29
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This volume brings together Paul Williams's previously published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara. In addition, there is a much longer version of the paper 'Identifying the Object of Negation', and nearly half the book consists of a wholly new essay, 'The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain', subtitled 'How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path'. This book will be of interest to those concerned with the history and interpretation of Indian and Tibetan philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
On Prakrtinirvana/Prakrtinirvrta in the Bodhicaryavatara	p. 1
Indian Commentaries	p. 3
Tibetan Commentaries	p. 4
On Altruism and Rebirth	p. 29
An Argument for Cittamatra	p. 52
Identifying the Object of Negation	p. 64
The Purvapaksa - Bodhicaryavatara 9:139 (TIB. 138)	p. 68
Bodhicaryavatara 9:140 - (I) Prajnakaramati's response	p. 75
Bodhicaryavatara 9:140 - (II) Some Tibetan comments	p. 80
Conclusions	p. 99
The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain	p. 104
Bodhicaryavatara 8:101-3	p. 105
Ontology	p. 107
Continuants and Collectives	p. 112
Wholes Simply do not Exist	p. 115
Conceptual Existents, Artefacts and Natural Kinds	p. 119
Time, Change and the Identity of a Continuant	p. 124
The Continuant/Collective Model and the Unity of the Person	p. 130
Korsakov's Syndrome - a Relevant Digression	p. 137
The Need for a Subject	p. 140
Unity and the Self	p. 144
On Pain	p. 153
Conclusion: How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path	p. 164
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 258
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