- Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 4
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Translator’s Introduction
- Part 1. The Two Truths
- 1. Appearance and Reality
- 2. The Two Truths in Buddhist Realist Schools
- 3. The Two Truths in Yogācāra
- 4. The Two Truths in Madhyamaka
- Part 2. Analysis of Self and Selflessness
- 5. Notions of the Self
- 6. Non-Buddhist Assertions of Self
- 7. Buddhist Proofs of Selflessness
- 8. Repelling Objections to No-Self
- Part 3. The Yogācāra Explanation of Ultimate Reality
- 9. The Absence of Essential Nature according to Asaṅga
- 10. The Three Natures
- 11. The Consummate Nature
- 12. Emptiness of Subject-Object Duality
- 13. Being Established as Cognition Only
- Part 4. Emptiness according to the Madhyamaka Tradition
- 14. The Absence of Essential Nature according to Nāgārjuna
- 15. Other Madhyamaka Refutations of True Existence
- 16. The Object of Negation
- 17. Do the Mādhyamika Have Assertions?
- 18. The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika Distinction
- 19. Emptiness and Dependent Arising
- Part 5. Buddhist Logic and Epistemology
- 20. Indian Epistemology
- 21. Buddhist Notions of Valid Cognition
- 22. Direct Perception
- 23. Valid Inferential Cognition
- 24. The Result of Valid Cognition
- 25. Valid Reasoning
- 26. Valid Cognition in the Prāsaṅgika Tradition
- Part 6. Denotation and the Exclusion Theory of Meaning
- 27. Indian Theories of Language
- 28. Dignāga’s Exclusion Theory of Meaning
- 29. Dharmakīrti’s Exclusion Theory of Meaning
- 30. Repelling Objections to the Exclusion Theory
- 31. Later Proponents of Exclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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