NDPR Monima Chadha Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics

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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Monima Chadha, Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2023, 222pp., $80.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192844095.

Reviewed by Jay L Garfield, Smith College/ Harvard University

Monima Chadha has given the world of Anglophone philosophy more reason to take Indian Buddhist philosophy seriously in this closely argued study of the philosophy of the 4th century philosopher Vasubandhu, generally regarded as one of the founders (with his older brother Asaṅga) of the Yogācāra tradition, a tradition associated sometimes with idealism, and sometimes with phenomenology. However one reads the vast literature of this school—or, more specifically, the work of Vasubandhu himself—the close attention that Vasubandhu and his followers give to the philosophy of mind and the structure of subjectivity is inescapable and fascinating. Vasubandhu’s influence on subsequent Buddhist...