Toward a New Image of Paramartha

Ching Keng is Associate Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

• List of Tables and FiguresAbbreviations and ConventionIntroduction 1. Two Competing Readings of the Notion of Jiexing2. Doubts about the Connection between the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana and Paramartha 3. A Philological Investigation of Dunhuang Fragment T2805 4. Doctrinal Coherence between T2805 and the Works of Paramartha5. Two Shelun Lineages and How the Awakening of Faith Came to be Attributed to Paramartha6. What Exactly is Jiexing?7. Paramartha as a Successor to Vasubandhu Conclusion Notes BibliographyIndex

Prosecuting the case that the traditional image of Paramartha is inaccurate, in this articulate and innovative monograph Ching Keng combines philological, historical and doctrinal analyses in order to recover Paramartha's authentic teachings. To that end, Keng also boldly challenges the view that Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha were antagonistic traditions in India.