Utpaladeva on the Power of Action provides the first critical edition, annotated translation, and study of one of the chapters of the Recognition of the Lord, a landmark in the history of nondual &#346;aivism by the Utpaladeva, that were recently recovered from marginal annotations in manuscripts of other commentaries on Utpaladeva's treatise.

Utpaladeva on the Power of Action: A First Edition, Annotated Translation and Study of Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛti, Chapter 2.1 (Harvard Oriental Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Ratié, Isabelle

Buddhism

Harvard University Department of South Asian Studies

From very early times, Buddhist intellectuals have made the notion of a self-existing over and above the bodily and mental constituent’s one of their main targets. Their critique first culminates in Vasubandhu’s treatise against the Buddhist personalists (5th century CE).The eighth-century philosophers Santaraksita and Kamalasila provide another milestone in the history of the mainstream Buddhists’ critique of the self and the person: their Tattvasangraha (pañjika) contains the most learned and elaborate treatment of the subject. But how have Dignaga and Dharmakirti contributed to this debate? The present study attempts to answer at least in part this question by offering an account of Dharmakirti’s position regarding the self.The book’s introduction deals with Dharmakirti’s view of the self as the paramount expression of nescience. Chapter 1 is devoted to his critique of the two main expressions of Buddhist substantialism; the Buddha-nature teachings and Personalism (pudgalavada). Chapter 2 presents his way of undermining the non-Buddhists’ arguments in favor of the self. Finally, Chapter 3 provides a detailed account of Dharmakirti’s most original contribution on the subject; his demonstration that the (belief in the) existence of a self makes salvation impossible.

Self, No-Self, and Salvation: Dharmakīrti`s Critique of the Notions of Self and Person (Osterreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte)

History

Eltschinger, Vincent

Asia

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

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