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Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.

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Author:   Douglas L. Berger
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438454733

ISBN 10:   1438454732
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   01 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Heart and Person: Early Chinese Thought The Conscious Body The Heart: Keeping Tallies and Moral Feelings Personal Cultivation and Sociality When Spirit Dethrones the Heart 2. Two Brahminical Selves The Unconscious Body Affects, Habits, and New Bodies Time, Identity, and the Abode of Memory Selves as Persons in Brahminical Thought 3. Eliminating Identity and the Luminous Mind in Yogacara Bodily-Cognitive Interdependence ""Self"" as a Reification of Habits Stored-Up Awakening and the Luminous Mind 4. Mind, Nature, and Conduct: Two Approaches of Chinese Buddhism Origin, Nature, and Causality Making Our Nature Our Aim Lumps of Flesh with Bright Minds Guests, Hosts, and Trust in Oneself 5. A Space for Moral Reflection: The Confucian Rapprochement Mind as Matter and Sense Coherence and Unity in Feeling Varieties of Learning for Oneself 6. Luminosity, Potential, and Personhood Luminosity: Making the World Manifest The Body, Nature, and Potentiality The Provocation of Optimism Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

...Berger displays an impressive ability to work within both Indian and Chinese philosophical traditions and to treat each on its own terms. His work clearly and convincingly articulates the manner in which South Asian traditions and their concept of the `luminous mind' significantly influenced Chinese Buddhism and later medieval Confucianism. The book is an exceptional piece of cross-cultural philosophy which is sure to promote enriched dialogue between representatives of South and East Asian philosophical traditions. - Dao

Author Information

"Douglas L. Berger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of ""The Veil of Maya"": Schopenhauer's System and Early Indian Thought and numerous essays on both Indian and Chinese philosophy."

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