Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. 1. Summarizing Vasubandhu: Should a Buddhist Philosopher Have A Philosophy? 1
6. 2. Against the Times: Vasubandhu’S Critique of His Main Abhidharma Rivals 22
7. 3. Merely Cause and Effect: The Imagined Self and the Literalistic Mind 59
8. 4. Knowledge, Language, and the Interpretation of Scripture: Vasubandhu’S Opening to the Mahāyāna 94
9. 5. Vasubandhu’s Yogācāra: Enshrining the Causal Line in the Three Natures 128
10. 6. Agency and the Ethics of Massively Cumulative Causality 176
11. Conclusion: Buddhist Causal Framing for the Modern World 214
12. Appendix A. Against the Existence of the Three Times 225
13. Appendix B. Brief Disproof of the Self 232
14. Appendix C. Discussion of “View” (DRSTI) 233
15. Appendix D. Against the Eternality of Atoms (Paramāņu) 236
16. Appendix E. The Proper Mode of Exposition on Conventional and Ultimate 239
17. Appendix F. The Twenty Verses on Appearance and Memory 243
18. Appendix G. The Three Natures Exposition 244
19. Notes 249
20. Bibliography 301
21. Index 311