ABSTRACT

A richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four basic models of Indian Buddhist thought, the third on karma, meditation and epistemology, the fourth on the Trimsika and its translations, and finally the fifth on the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun and Yogacara in China.

chapter 1|10 pages

Buddhism and Phenomenology

chapter 2|29 pages

Husserl and Merleau-Ponty

part |2 pages

Part Two The Four Basic Buddhist Models in India

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|6 pages

Model One: The Five Skandhas

chapter 4|31 pages

Model Two: Pratītya-samutpāda

chapter 5|27 pages

Model Three: Tridhātu

chapter 6|13 pages

Model Four: Śīla-Samādhi-Prajñā

chapter 8|7 pages

Summary of the Four Models

part |1 pages

Part Three Karma, Meditation, and Epistemology

chapter 9|32 pages

Karma

chapter 10|44 pages

Mādhyamikan Issues

part |1 pages

Part Four Triṃśikā and Translations

chapter 12|77 pages

Texts and Translations

part |1 pages

Part Five The Ch'eng Wei-Shih Lun and the Problem of Psychosophical Closure: Yogācāra in China

chapter 13|4 pages

Chapter Thirteen

chapter 4|26 pages

teen Seven Trajectories

chapter 6|21 pages

teen Alterity Pariṇāma

chapter 17|25 pages

Why Consciousness in Not Empty

chapter 18|12 pages

On Rūpa

chapter 19|12 pages

Extemality

chapter 20|12 pages

The Four Conditions

chapter 21|10 pages

Mirror Knowing: Soteric Alterations

chapter |8 pages

Conclusions

part |1 pages

Appendices

chapter 101|4 pages

Dharmas

chapter 7|3 pages

ty-five Dharmas

chapter |20 pages

Hsüan-tsang's translations and works