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Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions book cover

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Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions

By Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette Copyright 2020
222 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This is the first book fully dedicated to Indian philosophical doxography. It examines the function such dialectical texts were intended to serve in the intellectual and religious life of their public. It looks at Indian doxography both as a witness of inter- and intra-sectarian dialogues and as a religious phenomenon. It argues that doxographies represent dialectical exercises, indicative of a... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 The Beginnings of Madhyamika Doxography: Bhaviveka’s MHK

2 The Beginnings of Jaina Doxography: Haribhadra’s ¿DS

3 The Beginnings of Advaita Doxography: Sa¿kara’s SSS

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette is currently an FWO post-doctoral researcher in Ghent, Belgium. He received his PhD at the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany.

"[This book] puts forward an innovative and attractive argument that the Indian doxographies he studies are not "objective" summaries of different contemporary Indian schools nor simply mnemonic forms for learning about and ranking one's opponents, but are rather pedagogical devices intended to draw the pupil towards an understanding of reality which surpasses conceptual formulations."

-Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst,Journal of Dharma Studies

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