Epistemology
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The nature of truth and how we mortals might come to know it.
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Kālāmas, do not go by oral tradition, by lineage of teaching, by hearsay, by a collection of scriptures, by logic…
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A challenging discourse (even for those who first heard it!), this first sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya is a forceful rejection of all forms of monism, and the Samkhya philosophy in particular.
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Challenged by a brahmin, the Buddha gives a coy and cryptic response about the ending of conflicts. Venerable Kaccāna draws out the detailed implications of this in one of the most insightful and difficult suttas in the canon.
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If anyone, bhikkhus, should speak thus: ‘Having rejected this all, I shall make known another all’—that would be a mere empty boast on his part.
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Drawing upon the Yogācārin model, Dharmakīrti explains that the contemplative must first grasp the objects through cognition born of listening, ascertain them through reflection based on reasoning, and finally cognise them through meditative cultivation. This leads to valid perception.
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a fair number of occurrences in the Buddha’s life would be difficult to explain if he had been omniscient
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thinkers developed the notion of a ‘concept’ in order to explain how it is that words are capable of applying to real objects, and how concepts can be used to capture elements of word meaning extending beyond reference to real objects. In particular, I will focus on the developments made by Phywa pa Chos kyi seṅ ge in the middle of the twelfth century, as well as on reactions to those developments by Sa skya Paṇḍita
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For Early Buddhism, “public knowledge” would be a contradiction in terms.
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The more convincing position taken in Sarvāstivāda exegesis sees the three types of wisdom as interrelated activities that can rely on mindfulness, thereby testifying to the flexibility and broad compass of mindfulness in Buddhist thought as something not limited to a rigid division between theory and practice.
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whatever (is) seen, heard, or thought, the good say ‘putting down’
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A detailed analysis of this difficult sutta highlighting the limits of concepts and the Buddha’s rhetorical genius.
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