Identity and Experience: The Constitution of the Human Being According to Early Buddhism

Cover......Page 1
Saṃsāric Wheel......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Introduction......Page 31
The rūpakkhanda......Page 33
The Senses......Page 44
Manas and dhammā: the sixth sense and its object......Page 52
Notes......Page 65
Introduction to the arūpakkhandhas......Page 72
The Vedanākhandha......Page 73
Phassa......Page 77
Notes......Page 81
Saññā as Apperception......Page 83
Saññā as Conception......Page 88
Notes......Page 93
Saṃkhāra in the Tilakkhaṇa Formula......Page 96
Saṃkhāra in the Paṭiccasamuppāda Formula......Page 97
Saṃkhāra as Khandha......Page 100
The Cyclic Causal Nexus......Page 102
Notes......Page 109
Chap. V – The Viññāṇakkhandha......Page 112
1. Viññāṇa as impermanent......Page 113
2. Viññāṇa as ‘consciousness of’......Page 117
3. Viññāṇa as a factor in cognition......Page 121
4. Viññāṇa as providing continuity......Page 125
5. Viññāṇa as evolving......Page 127
Viññāṇa with Kāya......Page 131
Manas and Citta......Page 135
Notes......Page 144
Chap. VI - Nāmarūpa......Page 151
Notes......Page 165
Chap. VII - Manomaya......Page 168
Notes......Page 194
Chap. VIII – The Attitude towards the Body......Page 199
Notes......Page 220
Conclusion......Page 224
Notes......Page 226
Bibliography......Page 227
Glossary......Page 235
General Index......Page 239
Index of Textual Sources......Page 247
Back Cover......Page 249