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Dharmakirti on Compassion and Rebirth highlights the religious dimension of Buddhist logic and epistemology by way of studies of some fundamental and religiously controversial issues in Dharmakirti's ideas about compassion, karma, rebirth, modes of meditation, the reliability of the Buddha, the four noble truths, the path to enlightenment, and so on. The book also presents the first attempt to translate large portions of Prajnakaragupta's masterpiece, the Pramanavarttikalankarabhasya. At the occasion of this second edition, a new study has been added, namely of one of the most remarkable theories developed by Prajnakaragupta, the so-called doctrine of a future cause (bhavikaranavada). This is a highly original doctrine of backward causation, or retro-causation, which Prajnakaragupta employs in his proof of rebirth, his explanation of the yogic perception of past and future objects, and his understanding of pervasion (vyapti) as an essential feature of inference.
Dharmakirti on Compassion and Rebirth: With a Study of Backward Causation in Buddhism, Eli Franco, Dev Publishers & Distributors, Hardcover, 468 pp, $55.00
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CONTENTS: Dharmakirti on Compassion and Rebirth
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Introduction
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1
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Chapter One: The Framework and Proof-Strategy of the
Pramanasiddhi Chapter
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15
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Chapter Two: The Initial Verses. On the Absence of a Definition of Means of Knowledge in Dharmakirti's Writings
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45
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Chapter Three: Towards a Reconstruction of Dharmakirti's Doctrine of Rebirth and its Metaphysical Presuppositions
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67
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Chapter Four: Critique of the Materialist Position
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95
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Chapter Five: The Establishment of the Other World and the Refutation of Permanent Entities
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133
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Annotated Translation of Pramanavarttika II 34-72, together with Prajnakaragupta's Commentary
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159 |
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| Appendices |
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Corrections and Conjectures to the Sanskrit Text of the Pramanavarttikalankara |
323 |
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A Concordance between the Sanskrit Text and the Tibetan Translation of the Pramanavarttikalankara |
331 |
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Correspondence between the Peking and Derge Recensions of Devendrabuddhi's Panjika |
333 |
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Variants and Corrections to Miyasaka's Edition of the Tibetan Translation of the Pramanavarttikalankara |
335 |
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| Abbreviations and Bibliography |
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Journals and Series |
339 |
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Primary Sources |
342 |
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Modern Authors |
350 |
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| Indices |
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Index of Sanskrit Words |
361 |
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Index locorum |
385 |
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| Additions to the Second Edition |
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On Backward Causation in Buddhist Philosophy |
395 |
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Addenda and Corrigenda |
447 |
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