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Delineating Reason's Scope for Negation Tsongkhapa's Contribution to Madhyamaka's Dialectical Method

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Jinpa, T. Delineating Reason's Scope for Negation Tsongkhapa's Contribution to Madhyamaka's Dialectical Method. Journal of Indian Philosophy 26, 275–308 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004393710148

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