scholarly journals Origin and Development of Indian Logic and Buddhist Logic

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 890-900
Keyword(s):  
Indian Logic ◽  
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.

Buddhist Logic before Diṅnāga (Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, Tarka-śāstras)

1929 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guiseppe Tucci
Keyword(s):  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Indian Logic ◽  
Buddhist Logic ◽  
Take The Best

We must admit that very little is known about the first development of Indian logic and particularly about Buddhist logic before Diṅnāga. If we take the best manuals of Indian logic now available, such as those by Suali, Vidyābhūṣāṇa, Keith, or the most comprehensive Histories of Indian philosophy like those of Dāsgupta and Rādhākrishna we shall easily recognize that the data contained therein are far from being satisfactory; more than that, they are also very often wrong. In fact, almost the only source from which their statements are derived is the book by Sugiura, who certainly had the merit of giving the first account of Indian logic as preserved in Chinese sources, but, being himself absolutely without knowledge of orthodox nyāya and of Sanscrit, is in his statements and in his translations very often misleading.

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.

Is Indian Logic Nonmonotonic?

2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Taber
Keyword(s):  
Indian Logic
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