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Buddhist philosophy of religion in India

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Buddhist philosophy of religion in India

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Cover of: Against a Hindu god
Against a Hindu god: Buddhist philosophy of religion in India
2009, Columbia University Press
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Cover of: Against a Hindu God
Against a Hindu God: Philosophy of Religion in the Final Phase of Buddhism in India
2009, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Against a Hindu God
Against a Hindu God
2009, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents

Comparative philosophy of religions
Disciplinary challenges
A grammar for comparison
Comparative philosophy of religions
Content, structure, and arguments
Epistemology
Religious epistemology in classical India: in defense of a Hindu god
Interpreting Nyāya epistemology
The Nyāya argument for the existence of Īśvara
Defending the Nyāya argument
Shifting the burden of proof
Against Īśvara: Ratnakīrti's Buddhist critique
The section on pervasion: the trouble with natural relations
Two arguments
The section on the reason property
The section on the target property
Is Īśvara the maker of the world?
Language, mind, and ontology
The theory of exclusion, conceptual content, and Buddhist
Epistemology
The theory of exclusion
What exclusion is not
Semantic value
Ratnakīrti's inferential argument
Jñānaśrīmitra's three questions
Ratnakīrti's world: toward a Buddhist philosophy of everything
An inventory of mental objects/images
The contents of perception
The contents of inferential/verbal awareness
Nonexistence, existence, and ultimate existence
The Īśvara-inference, revisited
Who created the world?
The values of Buddhist epistemology
Foundational figures and foundational texts
The soteriological significance of epistemology
Jñānaśrīmitra on epistemology as pedagogy
Ratnakīrti's framework of value
Religious reasoning as religious practice.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
210
Library of Congress
BQ4440 .P38 2009, BQ4440.P38 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL22666343M
ISBN 13
9780231142229, 9780231513074
LCCN
2008047445
OCLC/WorldCat
268547511
Library Thing
9232844
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7203851

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