Williams, Paul

Studies in the philosophy of the Bodhicary avatara: altruism and reality/ Paul Williams - Delhi : M.S. PUB., 2000. - xii,272p. ; 23cm.

1 ON PRAKRTmRVANA/PRAKRTINIRVRTA IN THE
bodhicaryAvatAra
1 Indian Commentaries
2 Tibetan Commentaries
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:13 (=tib. i3CD/i4ab) (ab)
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:104Cd (=tib. io3CD)
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:1ii (=tib. iio)
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:35 (=tib. 34)
2 ON ALTRUISM AND REBIRTH
bodhicaryAvatAra 8:97:
bodhicaryAvatAra 8:98
3 AN ARGUMENT FOR CITTAMATRA
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:28CD (=tib. 27cd)
4 IDENTIFYING THE OBJECT OF NEGATION
Introduction
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:140 (tib. i39) ab
The Furvapaksa - Bodhicaryavatara 9:139 (TIB. 138)
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:139 (tib. i38)
Bodhicaryavatara 9:140 - (I) Prajnakaramati's response
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:14o (tib. 139)
Bodhicaryavatara 9:140 - (11) Some Tibetan comments
bodhicaryAvatAra 9:14i (Tib. i40)
Conclusions .
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5 THE ABSENCE OF SELF AND THE REMOVAL OF PAIN
1 Bodhicaryavatara 8:101-3
2 Ontology
3 Continuants and Collectives
4 Wholes Simply do not Exist
5 Conceptual Existents, Artefacts and Natural Kinds
6 Time, Change and the Identity of a Continuant
7 The Continuant/Collective Model and the Unity of
the Person
8 Korsakov^s Syndrome - a Relevant Digression
9 The Need for a Subject
10 Unity and the Self
H On Pain
(i) There are no such things as pains, only subjects
hurting
(ii) Pains as events
(Hi) Without subjects there can be no identification and
individuation of pains
12 Conclusion: How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva

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