Tuesday, October 29
Buddhist Idealism: Asanga and Vasubandhu
Assigned Reading
R. Thurman, Central Philosophy:
pp. 111-130 (Introduction),
pp. 191-208 (Chapter 1),
pp. 209-252 (Chapter 2).
S. Anacker, Seven Works of Vasubandhu, "Thirty Verses"
(entire).
(Photocopies on reserve at the Religion Department.)
Related Material
J. Willis, On Knowing Reality.
Western Relevance
Francisco Varela, et al., The Embodied Mind: a
groundbreaking book presenting a Buddhist human science perspective
on overcoming the limits of dualism in neuroscience, psychology and
evolutionary theory.