Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Abbreviations .................................................. xi
1 SUMMARIZING VASUBANDHU: SHOULD A BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHER HAVE
A PHILOSOPHY? ................................................ 1
2 AGAINST THE TIMES: VASUBANDHU'S CRITIQUE OF HIS MAIN
ABHIDHARMA RIVALS ........................................... 22
3 MERELY CAUSE AND EFFECT: THE IMAGINED SELF AND THE
LITERALISTIC MIND ........................................... 59
4 KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE:
VASUBANDHU'S OPENING TO THE MAHДYДNA ........................ 94
5 VASUBANDHU'S YOGДCДRA: ENSHRINING THE CAUSAL LINE IN THE
THREE NATURES .............................................. 128
6 AGENCY AND THE ETHICS OF MASSIVELY CUMULATIVE CAUSALITY .... 176
CONCLUSION: BUDDHIST CAUSAL FRAMING FOR THE MODERN WORLD ...... 214
Appendix A. Against the Existence of the Three Times .......... 225
Appendix B. Brief Disproof of the Self ........................ 232
Appendix C. Discussion of "View" (Dṛṣṫi) ....................... 233
Appendix D. Against the Eternality of Atoms (Paramāṇu) ........ 236
Appendix E. The Proper Mode of Exposition on Conventional
and Ultimate ...................................... 239
Appendix F. The Twenty Verses on Appearance and Memory ........ 243
Appendix C. The Three Natures Exposition ...................... 244
Notes ......................................................... 249
Bibliography .................................................. 301
Index ......................................................... 311
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