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Tables of Contents for Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Technical Note
xii
Bibliographical Abbreviations
xiv
List of Charts and Tables
xvi
Introduction
1
11
Context and Methodological Issues
12
25
The historical contexts of Tsongkhapa's thought
12
2
Questions of originality and development in Tsongkhapa's Madhyamaka philosophy
14
5
Textual sources for an exegesis of Tsongkhapa's Madhyamaka philosophy
19
2
Tsongkhapa's qualms about early Tibetan understandings of emptiness
21
16
Delineating the Parameters of Madhyamaka Reasoning
37
33
Tsongkhapa's reading of the four-cornered argument in Madhyamaka reasoning
38
4
Distinguishing between the domains of conventional and ultimate discourses
42
4
Two senses of `ultimate' in the Madhyamaka dialectic
46
3
Identifying the object of negation
49
5
That which is `not found' and that which is `negated'
54
3
A logical analysis of the forms of negation
57
6
Tsongkhapa's critique of autonomous reasoning
63
7
Tsongkhapa's Deconstruction of the Self
70
37
Levels of selfhood according to Tsongkhapa
70
10
Inadequacies of the Buddhist reductionist theory of no-self
80
2
The Madhyamaka seven-point analysis of self: A brief outline
82
11
An analysis of the concept of intrinsic existence
93
11
No-self as the emptiness of intrinsic existence
104
3
Personal Identity, Continuity, and the I-consciousness
107
41
Personal identity and dependent origination
107
16
The nature of the I-consciousness
123
12
Individuality, continuity, and rebirth
135
7
The analogy of the chariot
142
6
No-Self, Truth, and the Middle Way
148
36
To exist is to exist in the conventional sense
148
14
Everyday reality as fiction-like
162
9
Beyond absolutism, nihilism, and relativism
171
5
No-self, reason, and soteriology
176
8
Conclusion
184
3
Notes
187
40
Bibliography
227
13
Wylie Transliteration of Tibetan Names
240
3
Index
243