...This chapter introduces the historical situation of early Indian Buddhist sectarianism and the explicit polemical context within which the story of Mahādeva is related in an important scholastic text, the Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā (Great Commentary on the Abhidharma; henceforth...

... dependence. This paper explains some of these views and discusses some of their connections with issues in Western philosophy. Three Buddhist views, in particular, are discussed. The first is the oldest tradition, Abhidharma, which was foundationalist. The second is the Madhyamaka view, which is infinitist...

...The chapter begins by introducing the origin of the Abhidharma and the structure of Abhidharma texts, focusing on the role of matrices, texts in question-and answer-format and the status of the omniscience of the Buddha in the development of the Abhidharma. It examines the question...

...This chapter explains the metaphysical picture that emerges in the Abhidharma thought of the first five hundred years of Buddhism. This endorses an ultimate reality composed of dharmas, partless objects with svabhāva (self-nature), and a conventional reality composed of objects conceptually...

.... Their debate is ultimately informed by the respective ways in which Madhyamaka and Yogācāra understand what can be said, and what can be said to exist. vijñaptimātra ātman abhūtaparikalpa pudgalanairātmya trisvabhāva Madhyamaka Yogācāra Abhidharma language ”The world is only names”; you declared...

...This book gives a concise account of one of the most vibrant episodes in the history of ancient Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the Common Era up to the time of Dharmakīrti in the sixth century ce...

... realism theory of emptiness consistency reductionism Candrakīrti Kantian philosophy Nāgārjuna Madhyamaka non-foundationalism emptiness svabhāva nihilism Abhidharma Nāgārjuna is one of the most influential philosophers of ancient India, yet we know very little about him as a person...

... Commentary on the Treasury of Abhidharma (Abhidharma-kośa-bhāṣya) in which he explains, and argues against, Vaibhāṣika realism about the four qualities of conditioned things: birth, stability, ageing, and impermanence. Throughout this section, Vasubandhu argues against...

... goes on to discuss the importance of the story and how it accounts for the origins of the abhidharma and what is said to be the first image of the Buddha, the Udayana Buddha. The chapter contains two artworks, an Indian statue of the Buddha and a Tibetan painting showing the Buddha’s descent from...

...Vasubandhu's most important philosophical work is his Commentary on the Treasury of Abhidharma (Abhidharmakośabhāsya, AKBh). This chapter characterizes Vasubandhu's philosophy as expressed in the AKBh by reading his arguments closely. It shows that through his...

...Vasubandhu is well known for his extensive, brilliant argument defending the Buddha's doctrine of no-self, which takes up the entirety of Chapter IX of his Commentary on the Treasury of Abhidharma (Abhidharmakośabhāsya, AKBh). This chapter examines the motivating...

... Shaun practices Strawson Galen Strawson Peter F subject thin Augustine St continuity death dementia identity Parfit Derek Shoemaker David W Tierney Hannah values Williams Bernard determinism Jackson Frank virtue Abhidharma key texts Abhidharma traditions aggregates atoms Hindu...

...Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics. Monima Chadha, Oxford University Press. © Monima Chadha 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192844095.003.0004 The Abhidharma account of conscious experience faces some serious challenges not only because of the absence...

... this experience. Thus, the Abhidharma philosopher is left with the burden of explaining the phenomenological sense of agency. It is argued that there is nothing that it is like to be an owner of experiences, in the sense that there is no experiential phenomenology associated with ownership. no subject view...

...” of the Sūtras (Suttas) or “Discourses,” the Vinaya or “Monastic Rule,” and the Abhidharma (Abhidhamma) or “Higher Teachings.” With the topic of “discrimination of dharmas,” we must now shift to more philosophical matters that separate the subdivisions of Buddhism—in both...

... David consciousness Ego Machines for me ness Metzinger Thomas panpsychism perspectival centres qualificative dimension in experience subject of experience grounding metaphysical Pessoa Fernando Abhidhamma Abhidharma Abhidhammattha san˙gaha the Anuruddha attention Buddhaghosa Buddhist...

...This is a study of agency and free will in Abhidharmika Buddhist traditions. It focuses on how our felt sense of agency relates to the reductive account of selfhood in the Abhidharma schools. causal determinism no self theory of soteriology Abhidharma dharmas Buddhist usage Two Truths...

...This chapter brings together insights drawn from Indo-Tibetan Buddhist and enactivist accounts of the self. It examines the Buddhist theory of non-self and the reductionist formulation developed by Abhidharma Buddhism. After discussing some problems for Buddhist reductionism, it examines enactivism...

... naïve realism nirvāṇa Weiss Paul arhat category mistake samaṇas Berkeley George bhavacakka Descartes René karma Locke John materialism pratītya samutpāda paṭiccasamuppāda rebirth Sāṃkhya Samyutta Nikāya S self Abhidharma parinirvāṇa empiricism pragmatism Quine W V O dharmas...

... terminological dictionaries appeared much later in the eighteenth century. The manual was used by Siregetü Güüsi Čorǰi’s contemporaries and by the later generations of Mongolian Buddhists until modern times. Abhidharma Čiqula kereglegči Dalai Lama Erdene Zuu monastery manual of Buddhism Phagpa Lama...