Three Systems of Buddhist Logic

1986 ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans G. Herzberger
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Logic

Dharmakīrti (c.600–60)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Steinkellner
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Epistemology ◽  
Buddhist Logic ◽  
Indian Buddhism ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Indian Thought ◽  
Late Works

Dharmakīrti represents the philosophical apex of the Buddhist contribution to Indian thought of the post-systematic period. On the basis of Dignāga’s late works he developed a system of epistemology with a strong emphasis on logic, propounding it both as an explanation and defence of Dignāga’s thought. His logic, particularly, was new; in order to create a system of Buddhist logic proper, it clearly established the general Indian idea that logical relations are founded in reality. Buddhist epistemology as shaped by Dharmakīrti became a strong and influential rational tradition in late Indian Buddhism and has been studied and continued in Tibet up to the present time.

Buddhist Logic before Diṅnāga

1929 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 870-871
Author(s):  
G. Tucci
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Logic

Notes on the Nyāya-praveśa by Śaṅikarasvāmin

1931 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Tucci
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Indian Logic ◽  
Buddhist Logic

The Nyāya-praveśa by Śaṅkarasvāmin, recently printed in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series of Baroda, is a text of great interest for the study of Indian logic; in fact, in spite of its conciseness it contains an extremely clear exposition of the Buddhist logic as it was taught in India, at least among some particular schools, as those of the Yogācāras and the Sautrāntikas in that lapse of time which separates Diṅnāga from Dharmakīrti. That the book was written after Diṅnāga, but before Dharmakīrti, is proved by its peculiarities, which in many a point differentiate the theories held by the author from those maintained by the other two great logicians already quoted.

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