Religion and Logic in Buddhist Philosophical Analysis - Proceedings of the Fourth International Dharmakirti Conference Vienna, August 23-7, 2005

Contents

Preface

Account of the Fourth International Dharmakirti Conference in Vienna, August 23–27, 2005

Opening speech News from the manuscript department

Proceedings

Dharmakirti’s criticism of the Jaina doctrine of multiplexity of reality (anekantavada)

Sanskrit fragments of Dharmakirti’s Santanantarasiddhi*

Studies on Dharmakirti's religious philosophy (3): Compassion and its role in the general structure of PV 2

Can we say that everything is ineffable? Udayana’s refutation of the theory of apoha

Perception of yogis – Some epistemological and metaphysical considerations

Kamalsila’s view on yogic perception and the bodhisattva path1

Dharmakirti on inference from effect

Problems of transcribing avinabhava into predicate logic

Prajñakaragupta’s interpretation of mental perception

Bhoja and Dharmakirti

Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge’s views on perception

Nondual cognition

On the classification of anyapoha

Compassion in Buddhist logic

Dichotomy, antarvyapti, and drstanta

Manu and the Buddha for Kumarila and Dharmakirti

From Abhidharma to Dharmakirti

The Pratyabhijña school's critique of the Buddhist theory of determination (adhyavasaya)

Dharmakirti's criticism of external realism and the sliding scale of analysis

On the development of the argument to prove vijñaptimatrata

On the (im)perceptibility of external objects in Dharmakirti’s epistemology

Prajñakaragupta on the pramanas and their objects

Bhasarvajña’s interpretation of bhava eva nasah and a related chronological problem

The proof of impermanence in the dGe lugs pa’s pramana theory

The role of the concept of directing one’s mind to a verbal convention in Santaraksita’s refutation of the existence of universals

On the term anupalabdhi

based on the absence of external causes of destruction

Did Dharmakirti think the Buddha had desires?

Dignaga, Bhaviveka and Dharmakirti on apoha

Dharmakirti’s interpretation of Pramanasamuccaya III 12

Vacaspatimisra and Jñanasrimitra on the object of yogipratyaksa

Non-cognition and the third pramana

What makes all that is produced impermanent? The proof of impermanence and the theory of causality

Reconsidering the fragment of the Brhattika on restriction (niyama)