Electronic Publication/s monograph Vincent Eltschinger - Helmut Krasser Scriptural Authority, Reason and Action Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens Nr. 79 ISBN-13: 978-3-7001-7551-3 ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-7573-5 Subject Area: Asian Studies refereed - online - print

Scriptural Authority, Reason and Action
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Vincent Eltschinger - Helmut Krasser
Preliminaries page i
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Vincent Eltschinger - Helmut Krasser
Contents page v
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Foreword page vii
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Peter Skilling
The tathāgata and the long tongue of truth – The authority of the Buddha in sūtra and narrrative literature page 1
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Joseph Walser
On Buddhists and their chairs page 49
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Vincent Eltschinger
Turning hermeneutics into apologetics – Reasoning and rationality under changing historical circumstances page 71
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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 page 147
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Shinya Moriyama
On the role of abhyupagama in Dharmakīrti’s scripturally based inference page 183
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Sara McClintock
Kamalaśīla and Śāntarakṣita on scripture and reason – The limits and extent of “practical rationality” in the Tattvasaṃgraha and Pañjikā page 209
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Kei Kataoka
Transmission of scripture – Exegetical problems for Kumārila and Dharmakīrti page 239
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Hugo David
Action theory and scriptural exegesis in early Advaita-Vedānta (1) – Maṇḍana Miśra on upadeśa and iṣṭasādhanatā page 271
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Piotr Balcerowicz
The authority of the Buddha, the omniscience of the Jina and the truth of Jainism page 319
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Isabelle Ratié
On reason and scripture in the Pratyabhijñā page 375
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Raffaele Torella
Inherited cognitions: prasiddhi, āgama, pratibhā, śabdana – Bhartṛhari, Utpaladeva, Abhinavagupta, Kumārila and Dharmakīrti in dialogue page 455
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Notes on the contributors page 481
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