Dharmakirti on Compassion and Rebirth with a Study of Backward Causation in Buddhism
Franco, Eli
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Book ID : 44716
ISBN-10 : 93-87496-55-4 / 9387496554
ISBN-13 : 978-93-87496-55-2 / 9789387496552
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2021
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Dharmakirti on Compassion and Rebirth highlights the religious dimension of Buddhist logic and epistemology by way of individual studies on fundamental and controversial philosophical and religious issues in Dharmakirti’s notions of com-passion, karma, rebirth, the objects of meditation, the reliability of the Buddha, the four noble truths, the path to enlightenment, and related topics. The book also presents the first attempt to translate large portions of Prajñakaragupta’s commentarial masterpiece, the Prama?avarttikala?karabha?ya. At the occasion of its second edition, the book has been supplemented with a new substantial study which addresses a remarkable theory developed by Prajñakaragupta and called “the doctrine of a future cause” (bhavikaranavada). This is a highly original theory of backward causation, or retrocausation, which Prajñakaragupta employs in his proof of rebirth, his explanation of the yogic perception of past and future objects, and his understanding of pervasion (vyapti) as an essential feature of inference.
