Indian Buddhist Studies on Non-Buddhist Theories of a Self: The Studies of Santarak?ita and Kamalasila on the Nyaya-Vaise?ika, Mima?sa, Sa?khya, Jain, Vedanta and Vatsiputriya Theories of a Self

This book addresses prominent views on the nature of the self in Indian philosophical traditions and presents Buddhist critiques of those conceptions through the translation and commentary on Śāntarakṣita’s chapter in the Tattvasaṃgraha on theories of a self and Kamala-śīla’s commentary on it in his Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā.

The book is comprised of an introduction presenting the theories of a self in the Indian Buddhist Middle Way philosophies and in the different philosophical schools Śāntar...