Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism

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• PrefaceV
• List or Sources and AbbreviationsXI
• Introduction1

• Part One: The Existential Self

• • 1. Preliminary Remarks7
    • How to translate the term attā7
    • Has the term attā a mere conventional sense in the Nikāyas?10
    • The Nikayan approach to the term attā17

• • 2. Attā as Man's Highest Value20
    • The self as refuge20
    • The self is best26
    • In love with the self34
    • Look for the self37
    • Paccattaṁ40
    • Ajjhattaṁ43

• • 3. The Self as the Moral Agent49
    • Moral energy of the self50
    • Salvation in general and the self56
    • The chariot and the charioteer57
    • Knowledge of the self63
    • Manifestation of the self67

• • 4. The Self and Moral Evil77
    • The metaphysical self, as such, is above moral good and evil77
    • The moral self as the cause of moral evil80
    • The moral self under the influence of moral shortcomings82
    • The moral self 'wounded and killed' by evil83
    • Asmimāna as the root of all moral evil85

• • 5. Towards Perfection90
    • The self as related to moral good90
    • Self-exertion94
    • Self-control98
    • Purification of the self104

• • 6. The Self and Perfection108
    • Perfection of the self108
    • Self-stability109
    • 'He dwells with a self brahma-become'113
    • Full blossoming of the self118
    • The self and nibbāna122
    • Nibbutatto129

• • 7. The Self as Related to Kamma and Rebirth131
    • The self and kamma131
    • The self and rebirth143

• • 8. A Brief General Assessment of the First Part148

• Part Two: The Metaphysical Self

• • 9. The Doctrine of Anattā can co-exist with the Reality of Attā153

• • 10. The Doctrine of Non-self Taught Through
    the Denial of Positive Terms158
    • This is not my self158
    • He does not regard the khandas, etc., either as the self or the self as qualified by them173
    • Void of the self or belongs to the self183
    • What is not your own186
    • Permanence, happiness, self vs. impermanence, pain, non-self189
    • As alien, not as the self190

• • 11. The Doctrine of the Non-Self Taught Through the Predication of the Negative Term Anattā.195
    • Connection with the preceding chapter196
    • Scope of the' annattā statements'198
    • Intimate relationship between anattā' and dukkha204
    • The awareness of non-self205
    • Anattā proclaimed by means of universal statements208
    • Reasons given to assert that something is annattā222

• • 12. Asmimāna, Sakkāyadiṭṭhi, Sassatavāda and Ucchedavāda227

• • 13. Self and Non-Self After Liberation268
    • Buddha was not a nihilist269
    • Transcendence of the self276
    • Moral transcendence of the self278
    • Metaphysical transcendence of the self280
    • The abyākatā pañhā and the sakkāyaddiṭṭi unanswered294
    • Reasons for keeping the abyākatā pañhā unanswered294

• • 14. Recapitulation301

• Notes306
• Selected Bibliography384
• Glossary of Terms388
• Table of Scriptural Passages Commented or Quoted393
• Index of Names and Subjects401

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見

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gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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rang stong - The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena. Tib. རང་སྟོང་

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tathāgatagarbha - Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Skt. तथागतगर्भ Tib. དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ Ch. 如来藏

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prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

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gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性

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