ABSTRACT
The first chapter of this book is an introduction to an English translation, with commentary, of one of the three most extensive Indian Buddhist attempts to refute the theory that a self exists. The attempt translated in the book includes Śāntarakṣita’s verses in the Tattvasaṃgraha that present the attempted refutations, and Kamalaśīla’s commentary on the verses in the Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā. The introductory chapter explains both the theory that a self does not exist, which was presented by Śāntarakṣita and other Buddhist Mādhyamika philosophers, and the theories of a self that were presented by the non-Buddhist philosophers he attempted to refute in the Tattvasaṃgraha.
