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Encyclopaedia of Indian Philosophies, v. 9: Buddhist Philosophy from 350 to 600 AD. (Vol 9)

By Karl H. Potter

Book information

Publisher
Motilal Banarsidass
Year
2004
ISBN
8120819683, 9788120819689
LCC
B131 .E5 1977
Open Library ID
OL21251393M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18385452 bytes)
Pages
762\285
Topic
Religion Buddhism
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This, the third Volume in this Encyclopedia to deal with Buddhist philosophy, takes the reader from the middle of the sixth. Many of the authors and texts treated here are not well known to the casual student of Buddhism. The most important author is clearly Dignaga, who is almost entirely responsible for turning Indian Buddhism toward an exhaustive analysis of epistemic considerations and in particular of inferential reasoning. But other author whose works are summarized here deserve to be better known, in particular the rival Yogacara commentors Buddhapalita and Bhavya, the latter of whome in particular introduces for the first time into Buddhism contrasts between the viewpoint of his particular brand of Buddhism and all the other system of contemporary India, and not just the Buddhists.

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