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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Presentation, Objects, Representations -- 2. How Not to Use Dreams -- 3. The Place of Dreams -- 4. Cosmology for Philosophers -- 5. Making Up Worlds -- 6. Transparent Things, Through Which the Past Shines -- 7. Waking Up and Living Asleep -- Conclusion: The Future of Past Systems of Possibility -- Appendix: The Twenty Verses of Vasubandhu -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., argues in his work The Twenty Verses that these alternative contexts ought to inform our understanding of mind and world. Vasubandhu invites readers to explore experiences in dreams and to inhabit the experiences of nonhuman beings-animals, hungry ghosts, and beings in hell. Other Lives offers a deep engagement with Vasubandhu's account of mind in a global philosophical perspective. Sonam Kachru takes up Vasubandhu's challenge to think with perspective-diversifying contexts, showing how his novel theory draws together action and perception, minds and worlds. Kachru pieces together the conceptual system in which Vasubandhu thought to show the deep originality of the argument. He reconstructs Vasubandhu's ecological concept of mind, in which mindedness is meaningful only in a nexus with life and world, to explore its ongoing philosophical significance. Engaging with a vast range of classical, modern, and contemporary Asian and Western thought, Other Lives is both a groundbreaking work in Buddhist studies and a model of truly global philosophy. The book also includes an accessible new translation of The Twenty Verses, providing a fresh introduction to one of the most influential works of Buddhist thought"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vasubandhu -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Vasubandhu. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Dreams -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. |
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Sleep -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Sleep -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. |
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Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. |
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PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kachru, Sonam. Other lives New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. 9780231200004 (DLC) 2020054758 |
| ISBN |
0231553382 electronic book |
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9780231553384 electronic book |
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9780231200004 hardcover |
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9780231200011 trade paperback |
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