Language and reality : on an episode in Indian thought / / by Johannes Bronkhorst ; translated from the French by Michael S. Allen and Rajam Raghunathan.
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| Superior document: | Brill's Indological library, v. 36 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Rev. and with a new appendix. |
| Language: | English French |
| Series: | Brill's Indological library ;
v. 36. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 170 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Aim of the lectures
- Early Brahmanical literature
- Panini's grammar
- A passage from the Chandogya Upanisad
- The structures of languages
- The Buddhist contribution
- Vaisesika and language
- Verbal knowledge
- The contradictions of Nagarjuna
- The reactions of other thinkers
- Sarvastivada Samkhya
- The Agamasastra of Gaudapada
- Sankara
- Kashmiri Saivism
- Jainism
- Early Vaisesika
- Critiques of the existence of a thing before its arising
- Nyaya
- Mimamsa
- The Abhidharmakosa bhasya of Vasubandhu
- The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asanga and its bhasya
- Bhartrhari
- The problem of negation
- Dignaga and verbal knowledge
- The Bodhisattvabhumi
- Prajnakaragupta
- Indian thinkers and the correspondence principle
- Appendix. The Mahaprajnaparamitasastra and the Samkhya tanmatras.