For my selections along with the selections from those who know more than I: The Most Important Indian Philosophy Bookshttps://www.thereadinglists.com/most-important-indian-philosophy-books/ …
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Replying to @evantthompson
Surprised you don’t have Lankavatara sutra translated by Red Pine in this list.
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Replying to @MishaRogov
He's translating from the Chinese, not Sanskrit. An important text, to be sure, but not a text written by a philosopher.
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Replying to @evantthompson
And he explains in detail why the chinese one should be the basis, read his preface. The text itself is one of the classical texts of the subjective idealism of Yogachara.
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Replying to @MishaRogov
I know it. For a text from Yogācāra (which I wouldn't describe as subjective idealism), I'd choose one by Vasubandhu, a named philosopher ( and śāstra, not śūtra)
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Replying to @evantthompson
It is pure subjective idealism, for in Yogachara phenomenal consciousness is a construct of transcendental structures of consciousness — “seeds” of “alaya-vijnana” — what we call collective unconscious on the West. Ok though
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Replying to @MishaRogov
"Subjective idealism" is a term from European philosophy that doesn't fit Yogācāra. In latter, there's no "subject," empirical or transcendental; the subject is entirely imaginary.
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Replying to @evantthompson
It is an incorrect understanding, anatmavada denies existence of a self or a soul — empirical subject, but not the existence of transcendental witness of phenomena (dharmas) — subject-in-itself, consciousness-in-itself. There is no such discourse in Buddhism surprisingly.
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Well, I disagree with your conception, but twitter isn't a good place to discuss such matters, so I will bow out.
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