On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood

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Summary

This is the first book in a western language to treat these doctrines about Budda from a philosophical and thoroughly critical viewpoint.

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Doctrinal Study of Doctrine
Prolegomena
Primary Doctrines
Secondary Doctrines
Rules of Recognition and Patterns of Derivation
Rules of Interpretation and Combination
The Doctrinal Uses of Primary Doctrines
Applying the Theory
Buddhist Doctrine
Prolegomena
The Doctrinal Digests
The Authority of the Doctrinal Digests
The Content and Subject-Matter of the DoctrinalDigests
The Goals of the Doctrinal Digests
Theories of Doctrine in the Doctrinal Digests
Rules of Recognition
Rules of Interpretation
Buddhalogical Doctrine
Prolegomena
Buddhalogy and Maximal Greatness
Titles and Epithets of Buddha
Properties of Buddha
Analytical and Organizational Schemata
Metaphysical Embeddedness and Systematic Location
Buddha in the World
Prolegomena
The Buddha-Legend
Bodies of Magical Transformation
Buddha's Perfections of Appearance in the World
Buddha's Perfections of Action in the World
Spontaneity and Effortlessness
Endlessness and Omnipresence
Excursus: Buddha's Consumption of Food
Buddha's Perfections of Cognition in the World
Omnilinguality
Awareness of What Is Possible and What Is Impossible
One Body of Magical Transformation at a Time? A Controversy
Buddha in Heaven
Prolegomena
Ornamenting Heaven
Bodies of Communal Enjoyment
Buddha in Eternity
Prolegomena
Epistemic Predicates
Awareness Simpliciter
Buddha's Awareness
Metaphysical Predicates
Doctrinal Criticism
Doctrinal Criticism
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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