An Evaluation of the Vedāntic Critique of BuddhismThis book represents a comparison of the critique of Buddhism as set forth in the interpretations of Sankara, Madhva, and Ramanuja to the sutras of the second section (adhyaya) of the Brahma-sutras concerned with the refutation of Buddhism, with the positions actually elaborated by the Buddhists in their own texts. An attempt is also made to compare the conflicting interpretations of the three commentators to these particular sutras, in accordance with the philosophical approach unique to each commentator. The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of an Introductory Background. It includes a brief description of the Brahma-sutras as a text and summarizes the philosophical positions of the three commentators. The second part proceeds sutra by sutra to study the three commentators' interpretations of the particular sutras directed against the Buddhists. |
Contents
Causation | 19 |
The Unconstructed asamskṛta Dharmas | 36 |
Knowledge jñāna and the Knowable jñeya | 49 |
The IdeationStore alayavijñāna | 56 |
Introspective Perception svasamvedana | 63 |
a The Atom anu | 75 |
xii | 82 |
The cryptoBuddhism of Gauḍapāda | 99 |
Sankaras Association with the Gauḍapāda | 105 |
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Abhidharmakośa absence According to Sankara Alex argument arising Asanga atoms attempts to refute attributes avidyā B.N.K. Sharma Balasubrahmanyam basis bhāva bhavati birth Brahman Buddhist Buddhist Logicians Buddhist position causality cause and effect cessation cessation-with-understanding cognition commentary to Brahma-sūtra connection declared defilements dependent origination destruction dharmas difference Dignaga dream efficient cause entity existence explains footnote Gauḍapāda Gauḍapāda-kārikās given thing habit-energies Ibid ideation-store Ingalls Interpretation This sūtra Introductory Background iti cen Jayatirtha jñāna Kamalaśila knowledge Madhva Madhva's commentary Madhva's Interpretation Madhyamikas māyā Mayeda name-and-formation nescience non-difference non-existent non-momentary notion Nyāya-sudhā object-entity outer object-entity perception prajñā principle of Momentariness Radhakrishnan Rāmānuja Rāmānuja's Interpretation reference remembrance samskāras Sankara Sankara and Rāmānuja Sankara's Interpretation Śantarakṣita Sarvästivādins Sarvepalli Sautrāntikas self-intuition sense-object simultaneity space Sri Sankaracharya Sri Uttamur Śruti sūtra svabhāva tion translated as follows unconstructed dharmas Upanisad Vasubandhu Vedantic Vedantins vijñāna Vijñānavādins Vimsatikā Viraraghavacharya void Volume Vyasatirtha Wayman Yogācāra