Curated category
Buddhist logic
- DignāgaLittle is known about Dignāga's life. According to Taranatha, Dignāga was born to a Brahmin family near the city of Kanchi in around 470 or 480 CE and was…
- Buddhist logico-epistemologyThe historical Buddha engaged in public debates during a period when Indian intellectual culture was alive with differing philosophical theories.
- DharmakirtiA Chinese monk named Yijing walked the halls of Nalanda between 675 and 685 CE. He spoke of a teacher called Dharmakirti as someone recent to his time.
- PramanaThe Sanskrit word pramāna literally means proof. It derives from the root pramā, which combines a preposition meaning outward or forth with a term for…