This work is intended to be an introduction to the study of the Yogacara Buddhist philosophy together with its commentaries and notes for better comprehensibility of the contents of three edited and translated texts, namely Alambanapariksavrtti of Dignaga; the Vimsatika Vijnaptimatratasiddhih and Trisvabhavakarika of Vasubandhu. Yogacara is one of the great philosophical schools of Mahayana Buddhism. It produced many first class philosophers of deep and subtle insight, which gave rise to a huge literature, many of those works can be considered, according to universal criteria, as philosophic masterpieces, as for instance the three treatises that this volume contains. The general introduction to this comprehensive and scholarly work discusses the initial philosophical position in Buddhism; followed by the arising of the Buddhist idealistic position and sutras of idealistic tendency as well as the great masters of the idealistic Yogacara school. Further more the introduction describes the principal philosophical tenets of the school and some other themes that appear in the three treatises alongwith factors that contributed to the arising of the idealistic conception of chittamatra and the importance of the Yotacara school of philosophy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carmen Dragonetti
Carmen Dragonetti has been Professors in the National Universities of San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). He undertook investigation work of the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET) of Argentina, in the area of Indian Philosophy. He was Vice-President and President respectively of the Institute of Buddhist Studies Foundation (FIEB) (Argentina); Directors of the Revista de Estudios Budistas (Journal of Buddhist Studies) REB, edited in Mexico; and Overseas Research fellows of The International Institute for Buddhhist Studies (Tokyo). Independently or in collaboration, he has published several books in Spanish on Indian Culture, specially on Indian Culture, specially on Indian Philosophy, as Yoga and Mysticism of India, Philosophy and Literature of India, Mahayana Buddhism; Buddhist Idealism, Buddhist ihilism; several translations into Spanish of important Sanskrit and Pali texts, as Hymns of the Rig Veda, Hymns of the Aatharva Veda, Upanisads, Bhagavadgita, Upadesasahasri, Gita Govinda, Amarusataka, Damodara Gupta, Dhammapada, Udana, Digha Nikaya, Sutta Nipata. In English he has published the Yogasutras of Patanjali and Nagarjuna's Regutation of Logic (Motilal Banarsidass).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Fernando Tola
Fernando Tola has been Professor in the National Universities of San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). He undertook investigation work of the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET) of Argentina, in the area of Indian Philosophy. He was Vice-President and President respectively of the Institute of Buddhist Studies Foundation (FIEB) (Argentina); Director of the Revista de Estudios Budistas (Journal of Buddhist Studies) REB, edited in Mexico; and Overseas Research fellow of The International Institute for Buddhhist Studies (Tokyo). Independently or in collaboration, he has published several books in Spanish on Indian Culture, specially on Indian Culture, specially on Indian Philosophy, as Yoga and Mysticism of India, Philosophy and Literature of India, Mahayana Buddhism; Buddhist Idealism, Buddhist ihilism; several translations into Spanish of important Sanskrit and Pali texts, as Hymns of the Rig Veda, Hymns of the Aatharva Veda, Upanisads, Bhagavadgita, Upadesasahasri, Gita Govinda, Amarusataka, Damodara Gupta, Dhammapada, Udana, Digha Nikaya, Sutta Nipata. In English he has published the Yogasutras of Patanjali and Nagarjuna's Regutation of Logic (Motilal Banarsidass).
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