دانلود کتاب An Introduction to Indian Philosophy: : Hindu and Buddhist Ideas from Original Sources

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Notes
Chapter 1 Foundations of Brahmanism: Vedas and Upaniṣads
The primacy of substance
Some illustrative passages from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
Selections from Chāndogya Upaniṣad, chapter 6
Selections from the Taittirīya Upaniṣad
Selections from the Aitareya Upaniṣad (ātman as primary substrate)
Selections from the Kaṭha Upaniṣad
Notes
Part I Buddhist Traditions
Chapter 2 The Buddhist Ethos
What Buddhists believe
The Four Noble Truths
Anattā: No substance; no soul; no self that really matters
Notes
Chapter 3 Abhidharma Buddhism
The Monastic context
Ontology
Mind and world
Ethical consequentiality and moral values
The personalists (Pudgalavāda)
Notes
Chapter 4 Sautrāntika Buddhism
Ontology
Ethical consequentiality
Dignāga
Apoha: The ‘exclusion’ theory of linguistic functioning
Self-awareness of mental events
The Ālambana-Parīkṣā
Dharmakīrti
Dharmakīrti’s metaphysics
The impossibility of permanence
Logic
The authority of the Buddha’s teachings
Notes
Chapter 5 Madhyamaka Buddhism
Nāgārjuna
Emptiness
Verses from Nāgārjuna’s Ratnāvalī
The Refutation of Objections
Notes
Chapter 6 Yogācāra Buddhism
Buddhist idealism: Mind-only
Extracts from Vasubandhu’s ‘Twenty Verses Proving that only Mental Phenomena are Real’ (Vijñapti-mātratā-siddhi)
An interpretation of the Thirty Verses on Consciousness
Meditation
Notes
Part II Hindu Traditions
Chapter 7 Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika
The world at our fingertips
Metaphysics: The system of categories (padārtha)
The category of substance: Dravya
Subjects of experience (ātman)
The category Guṇa (qualities)
The category Sāmānya (common properties)
Samavāya (the inherence relation)
The category Viśeṣa (ultimate particularity)
The category Karman (motions)
The category Abhāva (absences)
Epistemology: The Pramāṇas – Perception, reasoning and testimony
Knowledge by perception (pratyakṣa)
Anumāna: Knowledge by reasoning or inference
Śabda: Testimony and the transmission of true information
Words and sentences
Notes
Chapter 8 Sāṃkhya and Yoga
The Sāṃkhya vision
Causal processes
The human condition: Bondage to material causality
The Yoga vision
Note
Chapter 9 The Mīmāṃsā Vision
The authority of the Vedas (Veda-prāmāṇyam)
Words and sentences
Kumārilabhaṭṭa’s realism
The perceptual process and our experience of the world
Ślokavārttika IV, 111–120
The nature of ritual agents
Notes
Chapter 10 Vedānta
The interpretation of the Upaniṣads
The Bhedābheda tradition of Upaniṣadic interpretation
Proto-Vedānta from a Buddhist perspective: The description of Vedānta in Bhāviveka’s Madhyamakahṛdaya
Note
Chapter 11 Advaita Vedānta
Liberating gnosis and disengagement from the world
Śaṃkara’s via negativa
Maṇḍana Miśra
Padmapāda, Prakāśātman, Vimuktātman and Sarvajñātman
Śrī Harṣa and his Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya
Scriptural exegesis and the sig­nificance of coreferential constructions
Illustrative extracts from Śaṃkara’s works
The ineffability of the brahman
Śaṃkara and the Buddhists
Notes
Chapter 12 Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
The religious context
The formation of the Śrī Vaiṣṇava tradition
Knowing God only from Scripture
Response to Advaita12
The individual self: Agency
Individual selves: Consciousness
The soul–body model
The soul–body model and the interpretation of scripture21
Notes
Chapter 13 Dvaita Vedānta and Madhva
The examination of Viṣṇu’s nature
Difference
Direct epistemological realism
The trouble with avidyā
Note
Chapter 14 Tantra and some Śaiva Thinkers
Śaiva Siddhānta dualism
Three categories: Pati, Paśu and Pāśa
Rāmakaṇṭha on the enduring individual soul and its experiences
Personal agency
Śākta Śaiva traditions
Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta
Absolute idealism
The intrinsic dynamism of consciousness: Prakāśa and vimarśa
Reinterpretation of Śaiva Siddhānta concepts
The Krama cult and the Pratyabhijñā philosophy
Krama practice
Illustrative extracts from Īśvarapratyabhijñā-kārika and commentaries
Fifteen Verses on Consciousness
Notes
Glossary
A note on pronunciation
People
Buddhist
Hindus
Bibliography
Index