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The cover-diagram shows the tradition of the Buddhist "Dharma Character School" (Chin. Faxiang zong, Jap. Hosso-shu), as seen by the Japanese temple Kofuku-ji in Nara. In this school, studies of logic, especially questions of non-contradiction and valid inference, played an important role. These studies were part of the "Science of Reason" (Skt. hetuvidya, Chin. yinming, Jap. immyo), a Buddhist discipline that originated in India and later spread to Sino-Asia. After his return from India, where he had travelled extensively, the great scholar-monk Xuanzang (600-664) introduced it to China, and Korean and Japanese scholar-monks, who studied with him in Chang'an, then brought it to their own countries. The first four names marked in the diagram refer to the Indian scholars Asanga (4th century), Vasubandhu (4th century), Dignaga (c. 480-540) and Sankarasvamin (-500-). Marked further down are the names of the Chinese scholars Xuanzang and Kuiji (632-682), and of the famous Japanese logicians Zenju (723-797) and Gomyo (750-834). All these scholastics, along with other Buddhist logicians who did not belong to the Dharma Character School, are dealt with in this book. Their theories are discussed from meta-logical and trans-cultural points of view; thus the discussions include com- parisons of Buddhist notions of logic put forward in India, Tibet and East Asia with, for example, Greek, medieval European and Islamic notions of logic. Focusing on logic, one of the main aims of this book is to contribute to a more comprehensive and less one-sided picture of Buddhism, which is among the general public in the "West" often reduced to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism. Actually, in Buddhist history several thousands of pages were written on how to avoid logical contradictions and on how to generate logically valid inferences. The contributors include well known Buddhologists and logicians from Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and the United States.
LIRI Seminar Proceedings Series, Vol. 7
Logic in Buddhist Scholasticism: From Philosophical, Philological, Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Gregor Paul, Lumbini International Research Institute, Paperback, 2015, 383 pages, $50.00
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Preface
Gregor Paul |
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Methodology Forever and Again
Gregor Paul |
11 |
Logics, Truth and Epistemology as Generally Admissible Operations and Processed
Hans Lenk |
31 |
Reasoning and its Relationship to Logic and Language in Classical India
Brendan S. Gillon |
75 |
Dialectical Self-Refutation adn Nagarjuna's Discussion in Six Points (Satkotiko Vadah)
Birgit Kellner and Sara L. Uckelman |
101 |
Dignaga and Dharmakirti: Two Summits of Indian Logic
ZHENG Weihong |
135 |
On Dharmakirti's Proposal to Solve the Induction Problem
Ernst Steinkellner |
169 |
Buddhist Epistemology in Sixth-Century China
LIN Chen-kuo |
187 |
Buddhist Sutra Translations Reconsidered: The Case of Xuanzang
Li Xuetao |
223 |
On Zuanzang's contribution to Hetuvidya - exploring the Six-dimensional Pragmatic Theory for Debate
SHEN Haiyan |
235 |
Dignagean Logic: Its Character as Term Logic and its Specific Way of Formulationg Universally Valis Logical Laws
Gregor Paul |
243 |
A Study of Gomyo's "Exposition of Hetuvidya" with a Glossary of Chinese Terms 337
TANG Mingjun |
255 |
Gomyo's Interpretation of the Proof of Vijnapti-matrata
MORO Shigeki |
351 |
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| Contributors |
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