Preface ........................................................ ix
1. The Teaching of the Buddha .................................... 1
Preliminary Remarks on Methodology ............................ 1
Main Teachings ................................................ 9
Self and Liberating Knowledge ................................ 19
Asceticism and Meditation .................................... 44
Recapitulation ............................................... 56
2. Arranging the Doctrine ....................................... 61
The Origin of the Dharma Theory .............................. 61
Systematizing the Dharma Theory .............................. 81
Concluding Observations ..................................... 109
3. Mahāyāna .................................................... 115
Early Mahāyāna .............................................. 115
Madhyamaka .................................................. 135
Further Developments in Mahāyāna ............................ 152
The Logico-Epistemological School ........................... 168
4. Final Observations .......................................... 175
Hermeneutics ................................................ 176
Influences outside Buddhism ................................. 179
Landmarks ................................................... 188
Abbreviations .................................................. 193
Bibliography ................................................... 201
Index .......................................................... 235
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