xvi, 304 pages ; 24 cm; Early Buddhism. Indian philosophy and the search for ultimate objectivity -- Life of the Buddha -- Knowledge and understanding -- Experience and theory (paticcasamuppana and paticcasamuppada) -- Language and communication -- The human personality -- The object -- The problem of suffering -- Freedom and happiness -- The moral life -- Popular religious thought.; Continuities and discontinuities. The emergence of absolutism -- Moggaliputta-tissa and the Kathavatthu -- Abhidhamma -- The perfection of wisdom in the Vajracchedika -- Nagarjuna and the Mulamadhyamakakarika -- The Saddharmapundarika-sutra and conceptual absolutism -- The Lankavatara-sutra and the great emptiness (maha-sunyata) -- Vasubandhu and the Vijnaptimatratasiddhi -- Dignaga's epistemology and logic -- Buddhaghosa, the harmonizer -- Tantras and parittas : the voiceful tradition -- Silent meditation and Ch'an (Zen) : the voiceless tradition.; 

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