List of Illustrations                      x
Preface                                            xi
A Note Concerning History and Chronology           xv
Introduction: What Is ``Buddhist Philosophy''?     3 
I Situating the Self
  Personal Identity in a Comparative Perspective   29
  Indra's Search for the Self and the              53
  Beginnings of Philosophical Perplexity in
  India
  Missing Persons: the Inapprehensible ``I''       77
    Appendix: A Tibetan Comment on Sister          103
    Vajira's Chariot
  Synthetic Selves                                 113(22)
  The Sensualist, the Sage, and the Dancing        135
  Girl's Brow: Personal Identity and
  Self-Cultivation
  Santaraksita on the Fallacies of                 161
  Personalistic Vitalism
II Reality and Reason
  Mereological Considerations in Vasubandhu's      181
  ``Proof of Idealism''
    Appendix: Vimsatika, 11-15, The Proof of       197
    Idealism
  The Trouble with Truth: Heidegger on             205
  Aletheia, Buddhist Thinkers on Satya
    Appendix: The Legacy of the Two Truths         220
    beyond India
III The Study of Tantrism
  Scholastic Buddhism and the Mantrayana           233
    Appendix: Bhavaviveka on Dharani               246
  Weaving the World: The Ritual Art of the Pata    257
  in Pala Buddhism and Its Legacy in Tibet
  Schopenhauer's Sakti                             281
IV Doctrinal Interpretation in Tibet
  From Kun-mkhyen Dol-po-pa to `Ba'-mda'           301
  Dge-legs: Three Jo-nang-pa Masters on the
  Interpretation of the Prajnaparamita
  Mi-pham's Theory of Interpretation               317
V Philosophical Texts in Translation
  Vasubandhu and the Nyaya Philosophers on         347
  Personal Identity
    Vasubandhu's Treatise on the Negation of       347
    the Person
    Vatsyayana and Uddyotakara on the Aphorisms    375
    of Reason
  Abhayakaragupta on the Two Truths                393
Bibliography
    Canonical Collections and Catalogues           417
    Sanskrit and Pali References                   417
    Tibetan References                             423
    Western Language References                    425
Indexes
    Index of Personal Names                        451
    Index of Subjects and Technical Terms          455
    Index of Texts                                 471