Dharmakirti on the Duality of the Object: Pramanavarttika III 1-63 (Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- und Zentralasiens)
By Unknown Author.
Description
According to one of the most fundamental tenets in Indian Buddhist epistemology, there are only two means of knowledge - perception and inference - because there are only two objects of knowledge: the particular and the universal. This book deals with this tenet as it was expounded and substantiated in Dharmakirti's (7th c.) magnum opus, the Pramanavarttika, a work that has exerted lasting influence on Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet up to the present day. (Series: Leipzig Studies on Culture and History of South and Central Asia / Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- ...
ISBN(s)
9783643904867
