, Santi-pa's treatise on inner pervasion, the Dignaga Dharmakirti system covering five sets on eleven verses, etc.) (less)

The book has a modern relevance in that it looks at cognitive episodes in the light of the flux theory (less)

Quine on the other. She agrees with Quine that a sharp line of demarcation between analytic and synthetic statements is untenable.

She provides convincing arguments to the effect that the Buddhist logicians rejection of substance ontology leads to the rejection of any claim to the ultimacy of the analytical-synthetic distinction.) (less)

Ch.II: The Sarvastivada.

Ch.III: The Madhyamaka (1) The Prasangikas Nagarjuna and Candrakirti.

Ch.IV: The Madhyamaka (2) The Prasangikas Aryadeva and Santideva.

Ch.V: The Madhyamaka (3) The Svatantrikas.

Ch.VI: The Yogacara (1) Two Yogacara Sutras and Asanga and Vasubandhu.

Ch.VII: The Yogacara (2) Dignaga and Dharmakirti.

Ch.VIII: The Yogacara (3) Santarakshita and Kamalasila.

Ch.IX: The `Tathagata-garbha .

Part II - Tibet: Ch.X: The Vajrayana, general features.

Ch.XI: The Nyingmapa.

Ch.XII: The Sakyapa.

Ch.XIII: The Kagyupa.

Ch.XIV: The Gelugpa (less)

This means that object remains but forms of its may change. An author explains the other idealistic & Realistic views of Buddhist especially the Sarvasti-vadins, Vigyan-vadins, Dignaga and Dharmakirti.

This book will be useful for Scholars and general readers as well.) (less)

It produced many first class philosophers of deep and subtle insight, which gave rise to a huge literature, many of those works can be considerted , according to universal criteria, as philosophic masterpieces, as for instance the three treatises that this volume contains. The general introduction to this comprehensive and scholarly work discussses the initial philosophical position in Buddhism; followed by the arising of the Buddhist idealistic position and sutras of idealistic tendency as well as the greatmasters of the idealistic Yogacara school.

Furthermore the introduction describes the principal phillosophical tenets of the school and some other themes that appear in the three treatisses along with factors that contributed to the arising of the idealistic conception of chittamatra and the importance of the Yogacara school of philosophy.) (less)