Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryavatara (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

Williams' work is the first book-length scholarly study devoted exclusively to Santideva's philosophy and as such it deserves our attention and appreciation. Williams is a gifted and engaging writer A very interesting and lively book.--Eli Franco, Bulletin of SOAS 4. IDENTIFYING THE OBJECT OF NEGATION......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 13 1. ON PRAKRTINIRVANA/PRAKRITNIRVRTAIN THE BODHICARYAVATARA......Page 14 1 Indian Commentaries......Page 16 2 Tibetan Commentaries......Page 17 BODHICARYAVATARA 9:13 (=TIB. 13CDI14AB) (AB......Page 18 BODHICARYAVATARA 9:13 9:104CD (=TIB. 103CD......Page 25 BODHICARYAVATARA 9:111 (= TIB. 110......Page 28 BODHICARYAVATARA 9:35 (=TIB. 34)......Page 34 2. ON ALTRUISM AND REBIRTH......Page 42 BODHICARYAVATARA 8: 97:......Page 43 BODHICARYAVATARA 8: 98......Page 52 3. AN ARGUMENT FOR CITTAMATRA......Page 65 BODHICARYAVATARA 9:28CD (=TIB. 27CD )......Page 66 Introduction......Page 77 BODHICARYAVATARA 9: 140 (TIB. 139) AB......Page 78 BODHICARYAVATARA 9:139 (TIB. 138......Page 81 BODHICARYAVATARA 9: 140 (TIB . 139)......Page 88 Bodhicaryavatara 9:140 - (II) Some Tibetan comments......Page 93 BODHICARYAVATARA 9:141 (TIB . 140)......Page 106 Conclusions......Page 112 How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path......Page 117 1 Bodhicaryavatara 8:101-3......Page 118 2 Ontology......Page 120 3 Continuants and Collectives......Page 125 4 Wholes Simply do not Exist......Page 128 5 Conceptual Existents, Artefacts and Natural Kinds......Page 132 6 Time, Change and the Identity of a Continuant......Page 137 7 The Continuant/Collective Model and the Unity of the Perso......Page 143 8 Korsakov's Syndrome - a Relevant Digression......Page 150 9 The Need for a Subject......Page 153 10 Unity and the Self......Page 157 11 On Pain......Page 166 (i) There are no such things as pains, only subjects hurting......Page 168 (ii) Pains as events......Page 171 (iii) Without subje cts there can be no identification and individuation of pains......Page 173 12 Conclusion: How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path......Page 177 NOTES......Page 190 Bibliography......Page 271 Index......Page 278 This volume brings together Paul Williams's previously published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara. In addition, there is a much longer version of the paper 'Identifying the Object of Negation', and nearly half the book consists of a wholly new essay, 'The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain', subtitled 'How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path'. This book will be of interest to those concerned with the history and interpretation of Indian and Tibetan philosophy.