The Yogacara Idealism

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Автор: A. K. Chatterjee

Название: The Yogacara Idealism

Издательство: Motilal Banarsidass

Год: 1999

Формат: PDF

Размер: 8.99 MB

Язык: Английский

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The author has taken considerable pains to present a complete picture of the system, to collect the scattered details into a coherent picture and to size it up, not merely as a phase of Buddhism, but rather as an original and constructive philosophy. In the exposition of the system he has argued that Yogacara is not merely an idealism but a synthesis of idealism and absolutism.

The Yogacana-Vijnanavada Idealism was the last great creative synthesis of Buddhism and its position in that tradition is comparable to that of the Advaita Vedanta. In this present book the author deals with the Yogacara-Vijnanavada in all its aspects and bearings, historically, analytically and comparatively. The first two chapters show, with great clarity and sufficient detail, the origin and development of the Yogacara idealism as an outcome of those fruitful and dynamic ideas associated with the previous schools of Buddhism, especially with the Sautrantika and the Madhyamika. The originality of the Yogacara synthesis of Buddhist teachings has been clearly brought out, and the individual contributions made by the philosophers of this school, such as Asanga, Vasubandhu, Sthiramati, Dignaga, Dharmakirti and Santaraksita, havereceived adequate attention. The subsequent chapters, which form the core of the work, represent a constructive and critical exposition of the Yogacara metaphysics, its idealism and absolutism as well as its spiritual discipline. This reprint after a lapse of ten years fills the need of the researchers.