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- und Zentralasiens - Vol. 5) [Subject: Buddhism, Religious Studies, Philosophy]

Dharmakirti on the Duality of the Object, Eli Franco, Miyako Notake, LIT Verlag, Paperback, 173 pp., $39.95

Eli Franco is Professor of Indology at Leipzig University. Miyako Notake is a lecturer at Waseda University, Tokyo.