Philippine Christian University

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Buddhist Philosophy in India: A Wheel Ever Turning -- 2. Philosophy as a Game -- 3. Factors Determining the Game -- 4. Narrating the Game: How to Structure the Material -- 5. The Sources of the Game -- 6. The Game's View of the Game -- 1. Abhidharma -- 1. Introducing the Abhidharma -- 2. The Question of Authenticity -- 3. The Abhidharma Schools -- 2. Madhyamaka -- The Rise of the Mahayana and Its Relation to Buddhist Philosophy -- 2. The Madhyamaka School -- 3. The Teachings of the Perfection of Wisdom -- 4. Key Themes of Nagarjuna's Thought -- 5. The Commentators -- 6. The Great Synthesizers: Santaraksita and Kamalasila -- 7. Madhyamaka and Nyaya -- 3. Yogacara -- Five Stages of Yogacara's Development -- 2. Proofs of Buddhist Doctrines -- 3. Key Yogacara Concepts -- 4. Factors That Shaped Yogacara Philosophy -- 5. Yogacara and Other School of Buddhist Philosophy -- 6. Yogacara and Vedanta -- 4. The School of Dinnaga and Dharmakirti -- 1. The lives of Dinnaga and Dharmakirti -- 2. Epistemology -- 3. Inference -- 4. Metaphysics -- 5. Language -- 6. Scriptural Authority and Yogic Perception -- 7. How to Classify Dinnaga's and Dharmakirti's Philosophy -- 8. The School of Dinnaga and Dharmakirti and Its Relation to Mimamsa -- 9. The End of Buddhist Philosophy in India -- Concluding Remarks

Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy during the first millennium CE. He aims to offer the reader a systematic grasp of key Buddhist concepts such as non-self, suffering, reincarnation, karma and nirvana.