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    Buddhist logico-epistemology is a term used in Western scholarship to describe Buddhist systems of pramāṇa (epistemic tool, valid cognition) and hetu-vidya...
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    to East Asia and Southeast Asia, Buddhist thinkers have covered topics as varied as cosmology, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology...
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  • direct analysis of Buddhist metaphysics through the lens of determinism is difficult, due to the differences between European and Buddhist traditions of thought...
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    Buddhist vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism by significant portions of Mahayana Buddhist monastics and laypersons as well as some Buddhists...
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    Repetti, Ricardo (2012). "Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility" (PDF). Journal of Buddhist Ethics. 19: 136–137, 143–145...
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    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Frank P. Ramsey and C.K. Ogden (trns.), Dover. Online text Archived 7 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Epistemology at Wikipedia's...
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    Mahayana (redirect from Mahayana Buddhist)
    Another influential tradition is that of Dignāga's Buddhist logic whose work focused on epistemology. He produced the Pramānasamuccaya, and later Dharmakirti...
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    Buddhist ethics are traditionally based on the enlightened perspective of the Buddha. In Buddhism, ethics or morality are understood by the term Śīla or...
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    who argued for the use of logical arguments using the pramana-based epistemology of Indian logicians like Dignāga. Bhāvaviveka argued that Madhyamika's...
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    svabhāva doctrine"), refers to a tradition of Buddhist philosophy and practice founded by the Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – c...
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  • Anattā (category Buddhist philosophical concepts)
    understanding of the Buddhist concept of anattā. Ahamkara Anicca Asceticism Atman (Buddhism) Atman (Hinduism) Buddhist logico-epistemology Catuṣkoṭi Dukkha...
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    Yogachara (redirect from Buddhist idealism)
    during the so called middle period are: A logico-epistemic tradition (pramāṇavāda) focusing on issues of epistemology (Sanskrit: pramāṇa) and logic (hetuvidyā)...
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    Vaibhāṣika (category Early Buddhist schools)
    सर्वास्तिवाद-वैभाषिक) or simply Vaibhāṣika (वैभाषिक) is an ancient Buddhist tradition of Abhidharma (scholastic Buddhist philosophy), which was very influential in north...
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  • Two truths doctrine (category Buddhist philosophical concepts)
    Chattopadhyaya 2001, p. 21-3,94,104. S.R. Bhatt & Anu Meherotra (1967). Buddhist Epistemology. p. 7. Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (2001). What is Living and What...
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  • The Abhidharma are a group of Buddhist texts dating from the 3rd century BCE onwards, which contain detailed scholastic presentations of doctrinal material...
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  • Sautrāntika (category Early Buddhist schools)
    bù\ shuō jīng bù; Japanese: 経量部, romanized: Kyou Ryou Bu) were an early Buddhist school generally believed to be descended from the Sthavira nikāya by way...
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    Sarvastivada (category Early Buddhist schools)
    Japanese: せついっさいうぶ; Korean: 설일체유부;Thai: สรวาสติวาท) was one of the early Buddhist schools established around the reign of Ashoka (third century BCE). It...
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    Pudgalavada (category Early Buddhist schools)
    補特伽羅論者; pinyin: Bǔtèjiāluō Lùnzhě) was a Buddhist philosophical view and also refers to a group of Nikaya Buddhist schools (mainly known as Vātsīputrīyas)...
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    Nagarjuna (category 2nd-century Buddhist monks)
    Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher monk of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. He is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers...
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    Theravāda Abhidhamma (category Theravada Buddhist texts)
    systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma). These teachings are traditionally believed to have...
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    Chandrakirti (category 7th-century Buddhist monks)
    an opponent's positions, (2) rejection of the key tenets of the Buddhist epistemology initiated by Dignaga and developed further by Dharmakirti, (3) a...
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    Śāntarakṣita (category Indian Buddhist monks)
    first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. Śāntarakṣita defended a synthetic philosophy which combined Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and the logico-epistemology of Dharmakirti...
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    and empirical evidence. It is one of several competing views within epistemology, along with rationalism and skepticism. Empiricists argue that empiricism...
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    Logic (redirect from Logico)
    cause of this object. A similar emphasis on the relation to epistemology is also found in Buddhist and Jainist schools of logic, where inference is used to...
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    a Logical Point of View: Logico-Philosophical Essays. pp. 20–46. Quine, W. V. (1980). From a Logical Point of View: Logico-Philosophical Essays (2nd ed...
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  • Prajñakaragupta (category Buddhist logic)
    the existence of other minds. Retrocausality Idealism Buddhist logico-epistemology Epistemology Franco, Eli, “Prajñākaragupta”, in: Brill's Encyclopedia...
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  • Jitāri (category Buddhist logic)
    Aparamitayus. Prajñakaragupta Retrocausality Idealism Buddhist logico-epistemology Epistemology Chu, Junjie, and Eli Franco. 2016. “Rare Manuscripts of...
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    Philosophical Language (1668) Alciphron (1732) "On Denoting" (1905) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) Two Dogmas of Empiricism...
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  • Apoha (category Epistemology)
    Dignāga's successor Dharmakīrti (6th or 7th century CE). Buddhist philosophers of the logico-epistemological school, of which Dignāga and Dharmakīrti...
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  • "linguistic turn". These writers were followed by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus), the Vienna Circle, logical positivists, and Willard Van...
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