Lucid exposition of the middle way : the essential chapters from the Prasannapadā of Candrakīrti

Contents......Page 6
Preface: Text and Translation......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 17
The Thought of the Middle Way: Translator's Introduction......Page 18
Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way (Prasannapada)......Page 45
Candraklrti's Salutation to Nagarjuna......Page 47
I. Concern, Method and Assumptions of the Middle Way Philosophy......Page 48
II. Attack on the Possibility of Knowledge: Controversy with a Buddhist Epistemologist......Page 69
III.  Enquiry into Conditions......Page 81
IV.  Motion and Rest......Page 92
V.  Vision and the Other Sense Faculties......Page 107
VI.  Material Objects and the Other Factors of Personal Existence......Page 114
VII.  The Primal Elements or Character and Characteristic......Page 119
VIII.  Desire and the Other Afflictions......Page 125
IX.   The Agent Subject and his Doing......Page 131
X.  Self as Subject of Perception......Page 141
XI.  Fire and Fuel......Page 148
XII.  The Absence of Being in Things......Page 160
XIII.  Self-Existence......Page 168
XIV.  Self and the Way Things Really Are......Page 181
XV.  Time......Page 203
XVI.  The Perfectly Realized One......Page 208
XVII.  The Basic Afflictions and the Four Misbeliefs......Page 223
XVIII. The Four Buddhist Truths......Page 239
XIX. Nirvana......Page 263
Glossary......Page 281
Bibliography......Page 295