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Scriptural Authority, Reason and Action

Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens Nr. 79

Scriptural Authority, Reason and Action

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Helmut Krasser, Vincent Eltschinger ORCID

Scriptural Authority, Reason and Action - complete volume

doi: 10.1553/978OEAW75513

Vincent Eltschinger, Helmut Krasser

Preliminaries

i

Vincent Eltschinger, Helmut Krasser

Contents

v

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Foreword

vii

Peter Skilling

The tathāgata and the long tongue of truth – The authority of the Buddha in sūtra and narrrative literature

1

Joseph Walser

On Buddhists and their chairs

49

Vincent Eltschinger

Turning hermeneutics into apologetics – Reasoning and rationality under changing historical circumstances

71

Helmut Krasser

Dignāga on air or How to get hold of supersensible objects by means of a credible person – With preliminary remarks on the composition of the Pramāṇasamuccaya

147

Shinya Moriyama

On the role of abhyupagama in Dharmakīrti’s scripturally based inference

183

Sara McClintock

Kamalaśīla and Śāntarakṣita on scripture and reason – The limits and extent of “practical rationality” in the Tattvasaṃgraha and Pañjikā

209

Kei Kataoka

Transmission of scripture – Exegetical problems for Kumārila and Dharmakīrti

239

Hugo David

Action theory and scriptural exegesis in early Advaita-Vedānta (1) – Maṇḍana Miśra on upadeśa and iṣṭasādhanatā

271

Piotr Balcerowicz

The authority of the Buddha, the omniscience of the Jina and the truth of Jainism

319

Isabelle Ratié

On reason and scripture in the Pratyabhijñā

375

Raffaele Torella

Inherited cognitions: prasiddhi, āgama, pratibhā, śabdana – Bhartṛhari, Utpaladeva, Abhinavagupta, Kumārila and Dharmakīrti in dialogue

455

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Notes on the contributors

481