[INDOLOGY] Publication announcement: Gethin: Mapping a Buddha's Mind

[Matthew Kapstein]

Through Vitalsource, it can be used for 180 days for $127, or via the UK site 50£ for the same period - probably more costly than the OUP e-edition will be.

Matthew T. Kapstein
Professor emeritus
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies Emeritus
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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-------- Original Message --------
On Thursday, 09/24/26 at 20:32 Gleb Sharygin via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Heartfelt congratulations to Rupert Gethin with regard to the appearance of this long-awaited book that was so long in the making!
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> For everyone interested -- and those many of us who don't have access to Oxford Academic, etc. -- the book (the digital version) is also available here:
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> https://www.vitalsource.com/de/products/mapping-a-buddha-39-s-mind-rupert-gethin-v9780192598707?srsltid=AU7gw4XWlwpYCdI2St1EHBY3fvmzm3J_iw1ewSpL0GP8A_Kx7d5EXVZ-
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> It became available at the end of August. I have already read it (well, most of it), and even referred to it in one of my papers.
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> The book is truly a masterpiece and sheds so much new light on this very special, difficult and enigmatic subject.
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> With kind regards,
>
> Gleb Sharygin
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> "Evaṃ vimuttacitto kho, aggivessana, bhikkhu na kenaci saṃvadati, na
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> kenaci vivadati, yañca loke vuttaṃ tena voharati, aparāmasa"nti.
>
> Schopenhauer was wandering through Berlin’s famous Tiergarten once at
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> night. Thinking he was a tramp, a security guard approached him and asked
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> roughly, "Who are you? Where did you come from? Why are you
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> here? Where are you going?" Astounded, Schopenhauer replied: "If you
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> could only answer these questions to me, I'd be eternally grateful!"
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 17:51 Rupert Gethin via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Just to announce that my book on Abhidharma has recently been published:
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>> Rupert Gethin, Mapping a Buddha's Mind: Indian Buddhist Thought in the Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, and Yogācāra Abhidharma (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), xxviii + 533 pp. ISBN: 9780198856689. £150 (Sorry about the price.)
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>> https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mapping-a-buddhas-mind-9780198856689?cc=gb&lang=en&
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>> CONTENTS
>> Introduction: On the Study of Abhidharma
>> 1:The Development of Abhidharma Literature
>> 2:On Listing Dharmas
>> 3:On Being Embodied
>> 4:On Being Conscious
>> 5:On Being Unskilful
>> 6:On Being Skilful
>> 7:On Mapping Causes and Effects
>> 8:On Doing, Dying, and Being Reborn
>> Concluding Remarks
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Rupert Gethin
>>
>> —
>> Rupert Gethin
>> Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies
>> University of Bristol
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