Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism
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Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism

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Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9789027979872
eBook ISBN
9783110804164
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Eastern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. LIST OF SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. Part One: The Existential Self
  5. 1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS
  6. – How to translate the term attā
  7. – Has the term attā a mere conventional sense in the Nikāyas?
  8. – The Nikayan approach to the term atta
  9. 2. ATTĀ AS MAN’S HIGHEST VALUE
  10. – The self as refuge
  11. – The self is best
  12. – In love with the self
  13. – Look for the self
  14. – Paccattaḿ
  15. – Ajjhattaḿ
  16. 3. THE SELF AS THE MORAL AGENT
  17. – Moral energy of the self
  18. – Salvation in general and the self
  19. – The chariot and the charioteer
  20. – Knowledge of the self
  21. – Manifestation of the self
  22. 4. THE SELF AND MORAL EVIL
  23. – The metaphysical self, as such, is above moral good and evil
  24. – The moral self as the cause of moral evil
  25. – The moral self under the influence of moral shortcomings
  26. – The moral self ‘wounded and killed’ by evil
  27. – Asmimāna as the root of all moral evil
  28. 5. TOWARDS PERFECTION
  29. – The self as related to moral good
  30. – Self-exertion
  31. – Self-control
  32. – Purification of the self
  33. 6. THE SELF AND PERFECTION
  34. – Perfection of the self
  35. – Self-stability
  36. – ‘He dwells with a self brahma-become’
  37. – Full blossoming of the self
  38. – The self and nibbāna
  39. – Nibbutatto
  40. 7. THE SELF AS RELATED TO KAMMA AND REBIRTH
  41. – The self and kamma
  42. – The self and rebirth
  43. 8. A BRIEF GENERAL ASSESSMENT OF THE FIRST PART
  44. Part Two: The Metaphysical Self
  45. 9. THE DOCTRINE OF ANATTĀ CAN CO-EXIST WITH THE REALITY OF ATTĀ
  46. 10. THE DOCTRINE OF NON-SELF TAUGHT THROUGH THE DENIAL OF POSITIVE TERMS
  47. – This is not my self.
  48. – He does not regard the khandhas, etc., either as the self or the self as qualified by them
  49. – Void of the self or of what belongs to the self
  50. – What is not your own
  51. – Permanence, happiness, self vs. impermanence, pain, non-self
  52. – As alien, not as the self
  53. 11. THE DOCTRINE OF NON-SELF TAUGHT THROUGH THE PREDICATION OF THE NEGATIVE TERM ANATTĀ
  54. – Connection with the preceding chapter
  55. – Scope of the ‘anattā statements’
  56. – Intimate relationship between anattā and dukkha
  57. – The awareness of non-self
  58. – Anattā proclaimed by means of universal statements
  59. – Reasons given to assert that something is anattā
  60. 12. ASMIMĀNA, SAKKĀYADIṬṬHI, SASSATAVĀDA AND UCCHEDAVĀDA
  61. 13. SELF AND NON-SELF AFTER LIBERATION
  62. – Buddha was not a nihilist
  63. – Transcendence of the self.
  64. – Moral transcendence of the self
  65. – Metaphysical transcendence of the self
  66. – The abyākatā pañhā and the sakkāyadiṭṭhi
  67. – Reasons for keeping the abyākatā pañhā unanswered
  68. 14. RECAPITULATION
  69. NOTES
  70. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  71. GLOSSARY OF TERMS
  72. TABLE OF SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES COMMENTED OR QUOTED
  73. INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS