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This just came in: a massive two-part memorial volume for Helmut Krasser, who passed away in 2014, published in the Hamburg Buddhist Studies series (https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/publikationen/hamburg-buddhist-studies.html). 918 pages (and remarkably affordable!). #BuddhistStudies #BuddhistPhilosophs #IndianPhilosophy

Students of Indian and Buddhist philosophy, rejoice: you can finally read the sixth chapter of Jinendrabuddhi's 8th century Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā in Sanskrit, masterfully edited by Ono, Muroya and Watanabe, and learn about "futile rejoinders" (jāti) and other intricacies of debate logic. To order the print copy or download the open-access PDF, click https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/produkt/jinendrabuddhi-s-vi-l-malavat-pram-asamuccaya-k/99200813?name=jinendrabuddhi-s-vi-l-malavat-pram-asamuccaya-k&product_form=4955 #IndianPhilosophy #BuddhistPhilosophy

Is there any good soul here who has access to this #book and could lend me a hand with a quote from it?

Ernst Steinkellner (ed.). 2016. Dharmakīrti's Hetubindu: Critically edited by Ernst Steinkellner on the basis of preparatory work by Helmut Krasser with a translation of the Gilgit fragment by Klaus Wille. (STTAR 19.) Beijing, Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House and Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

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I'm currently working on the Lokāyata section of Bhavyakīrti's (10th century) Pradīpoddyotanānusandhiprakāśikānāmavyākhyāṭīkā. Although it seems that Bhavyakīrti doesn't fully understand the meaning of some Lokāyata arguments, the section is quite interesting.

The main subjects are:
- rejection of the Lokāyata epistemology,
- discussion of the mind-body relation,
- rejection of the Lokāyata negation of afterlife.

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A Harvard University scholar in a chat on another social proposes that greater focus in ongoing research be directed towards the works of Skandasvāmin, the earliest known commentator on the Ṛgveda.

Interesting suggestion indeed!

Here a paper (in French) on Skandasvāmin by Silvia D'Intino:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24360015

#philosophy #indianphilosophy #veda

The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps is a great podcast and book series for an introduction to the topic, covering not only western philosophy back to Plato and Aristotle but also Indian, Islamic and Africana philosophy (and in the future Chinese too). The podcast is at https://historyofphilosophy.net/

#history #ancienthistory #philosophy #ancientgreece #ancientgreek #greekphilosophy #plato #aristotle #indianphilosophy #indianhistory #hindu #buddhist #buddhism #islam #muslim

In your opinion, which relatively lesser-known author of Indian philosophy (including Buddhism, Jainism etc.) deserves more attention in current research, and why?

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Is the Hinduism we practice, Vedic?

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https://pradx.in/2023/04/27/is-the-hinduism-we-practise-today-vedic/

"Traditional societies exploit flexibility while pretending permanence. This is because belief systems are not legitimated once and for all and therefore require means to cope with conflict and change without facing the challenge of admitting that these have taken place."

Eivind Kahrs. 1998. Indian Semantic Analysis. p.1.

#indology #indianphilosophy

It is a sad fact that much of Western #Philosophy, far from being simply “footnotes to #Plato,” is the result of Westerners being deeply inspired by #IndianPhilosophy such as #Hinduism or #Buddhism only to minimize or altogether hide such influences out of a Eurocentric intellectual pride that ancient #India could not possibly have been a far more spiritually and philosophically advanced civilization than Ancient Greece.

Rajiv Malhotra has dubbed this the “U-turn Effect”

A Sunday morning reflection on #AdvaitaVedanta and St. Anselm's ontological argument, and why Vedanta escapes from Kant's famous objection that existence is not a predicate, providing a phenomenological and methodological means of Self-inquiry for Self-realization, which is God-realization.

#Vedanta #Hinduism #Philosophy #Theology #Spirituality #God #Metaphysics #Writing #Blogging #Consciousness #Phenomenology #Ontology #IndianPhilosophy #Advaita #Nonduality

https://orderoftarot.com/advaita-vedanta-and-the-ontological-argument/

"At least for academic Buddhist studies, the phenomenon of scholars becoming apologists for Iron Age or Medieval metaphysics is a major problem, especially in the supposedly allied field of Madhyamaka studies."

From a forthcoming article.

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Ironically, Edward Conze's belief in a transcendent magical reality in which "all is one" and "A is not-A" has no counterpart in any form of #Buddhism AFAIK.

The religion in which we do find this kind of thinking is #Hinduism, especially forms of Advaita #Vedanta.

#Conze had a lot more in common with Vedanta, especially as interpreted through the mind of Madam #Blavatsky, than he did with Buddhism.

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A few weeks ago I sent to a journal a short paper, in which I discuss and translate a faunal episode described in Ṛgveda 10.28.10cd. The idea for this paper came to me because some modern translations of the same half a stanza are not only weird but also out of context.
This gave me the opportunity to highlight the so-called principle of plausibility, which we should adopt when interpreting passages in ancient texts with many possible translations.

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Uh-oh, today my last paper is #openaccess!

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https://mastodon.world/@krishnadeltoso/109722795511850603

Finally it sees the light!

My paper "Bhāviveka and Avalokitavrata on the Two So-Called Non-cause Theories (ahetuvāda) of the Lokāyatikas" was published today on Indo-Iranian Journal, issue 66.1 (which I'm sharing with Oskar von Hinüber).

Here the link https://brill.com/view/journals/iij/66/1/article-p1_1.xml

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for #IndianPhilosophy nerds.

I'm remarking that the compounds (Pāli) ariyasacca and (Sanskrit) āryasatya, which for decades have been interpreted as a karmadhāraya and translated accordingly, as "the noble truths" (= the pillars of the Buddhist doctrine), now scholars begin to interpret as a tatpuruṣa, i.e., "the truths of the noble ones" (= the pillars of the doctrine of the Buddhists).

The difference is quite significant!

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Happy to announce that my last article, "Bhāviveka and Avalokitavrata on the Two So-Called Non-cause Theories (ahetuvāda) of the Lokāyatikas", will appear on Indo-Iranian Journal, issue 66.1 (2023), pp. 1-23.

#philosophy #IndianPhilosophy #causality @philosophy @indianphilosophy

In Subhūtighoṣa's (8th c.) Sarvayānālokaviśeṣabhāṣya, a compendium of several philosophical views, we read:

dpyod pa pa ni ’jig rten rgyaṅ phan pa ste | de kho na ñid bźir ’dod de | sa daṅ | chu daṅ | me daṅ | rluṅ daṅ ṅo | |

"The Mīmāṃsākas are Lokāyatikas and believe that four are the principles: earth, water, fire and wind."

Please could someone point me on Mīmāṃsā sources that confirm Mīmāṃsākas believed in the four principles?

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For #IndianPhilosophy nerds:

Recently I've worked on Bhāviveka’s Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā 3.129cd-136 and Tarkajvālā (TJ) thereon (edition and annotated translation + introduction) and it clearly emerges that at least this part of the TJ was authored not by Bhāviveka but by another person, who wasn't so conversant with (the basics of) the #philosophy of the Vaibhāṣika, Yogācāra, Vaiśeṣika and Jaina.
This confirms the hypothesis that the TJ is a multi-layered text.
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