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The Mode of Argumentation in the Fangbian xin lun / *Upāyahṛdaya | On dharmisvarūpaviparītasādhana | Dignāga on a Famous Sāṅkhya Definition of Inference | Miszellen zur erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Schule des Buddhismus XII: anupalabdhi as pramāṇāntara – Īśvarasena is the Opponentin Tattvasaṅgraha 1693-1694. With an Edition of Tattvasaṅgraha 1691-1697 and the Pañjikā | Dharmakīrti, svataḥ prāmāṇyam, and Awakening | Justification, Credibility and Truth: Sucaritamiśra on Kumārilaʼs Intrinsic Validity | Xuanzang’s Silence and Dharmakīrti’s Dates | Materials for the Study of Xuanzang’s Inference of Consciousness-only (wei shi bi liang 唯識比量) | On Chinese Interpretations of the Distinction Between Two Types of Negation in Indian Buddhist Logic | Anzeigen | Anschriften der Autoren und Rezensenten | Hinweise für Autoren / Information for Authors | Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, Vienna | Asienkundliche Publikationen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

The “Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens / Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies” was founded in 1957 by Erich Frauwallner. The journal was then published jointly by the Department of Indology of the University and the Committee for the Languages and Cultures of South and East Asia (Kommission für Sprachen und Kulturen Süd- und Ostasiens) of the ÖAW, which was the forerunner of the Academy’s Institute for the Intellectual and Cultural History of Asia (Institut für die Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, founded in 1991) and has been established at Frauwallner’s initiative in 1956. 

This volume contains papers by S. Katsura, S. Moriyama, H. Lasic, E. Steinkellner, J. Taber, L. McCrea, E. Franco, M. Tang and J. Zamorski, based on their contributions to the panel “Pramāṇa across Asia: India, China, Korea, Japan” held at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, August 18–23, 2014. The purpose of the panel was to draw attention to the issue of the transition of Buddhist dialectics, logic and epistemology from South to East Asia and to advance understanding of this process, which – compared to the transmission of these branches of Buddhist learning to Tibet  – has been relatively understudied, at least in scholarship in European languages. Inasmuch as the selected papers present foundational new research on crucial points and larger issues, the volume should spark renewed interest in the exploration of the wide-ranging tradition of Chinese Hetuvidyā, before its South Asian backdrop and beyond. 

Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies Volume 56–57 (2015–2018). Hetuvidyā and the Science of Pramāṇa. The South Asian Scene and East Asian Developments. Special editors Eli Franco and Karin Preisendanz

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Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, Band 56–57 (2015–2018) ‒ Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 56‒57 (2015‒2018)

Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, Band 56–57 (2015–2018) ‒ Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 56‒57 (2015‒2018) 2015‒2018 56‒57 56‒57 

Opening speech &amp;#x2013; News from the manuscript department | Program | Dharmak&amp;#x12B;rti’s criticism of the Jaina doctrine of multiplexity of reality (anek&amp;#x101;ntav&amp;#x101;da) | Sanskrit fragments of Dharmak&amp;#x12B;rti’s Sant&amp;#x101;n&amp;#x101;ntarasiddhi | Studies on Dharmak&amp;#x12B;rti’s religious philosophy (3): Compassion and its role in the general structure of PV 2 | Can we say that everything is ineffable? Udayana’s refutation of the theory of apoha | Perception of yogis – Some epistemological and metaphysical considerations | Kamalaś&amp;#x12B;la’s view on yogic perception and the bodhisattva paths | Dharmak&amp;#x12B;rti on inference from effect. A discussion of verse 12 and the Svavrtti of the Sv&amp;#x101;rth&amp;#x101;num&amp;#x101;na chapter of the Pram&amp;#x101;ṇav&amp;#x101;rttika | Problems of transcribing avin&amp;#x101;bh&amp;#x101;va into predicate logic | PrajñPrajñ&amp;#x101;karagupta’s interpretation of mental perceptionkaragupta’s interpretation of mental perception | Bhoja and Dharmak&amp;#x12B;rti | Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge’s views on perception | Nondual cognition | On the classification of any&amp;#x101;poha | Compassion in Buddhist logic – Dharmak&amp;#x12B;rti’s view of compassion as interpreted by PrajñPrajñ&amp;#x101;karagupta | Dichotomy, antarvyāpti, and dṛṣṭānta | Manu and the Buddha for Kumārila and Dharmakīrti | From Abhidharma to Dharmakīrti – With a special reference to the concept of svabhāva | A critique of the Buddhist theory of adhyavasāya in the Pratyabhijñā school | Dharmakīrti’s criticism of external realism and the sliding scale of analysis | On the development of the argument to prove vijñaptimātratā | On the (im)perceptibility of external objects in Dharmakīrti’s epistemology | Prajñākaragupta on the pramāṇas and their objects | pramāṇapariāuddhasakalatattvajña, sarvajña and sarvasarvajña | Bhāsarvajña’s Interpretation of bhāva eva nāśaḥ and a related chronological problem | The proof of impermanence in the dGe lugs pa’s pramāṇa theory | The concept of samayābhoga in the refutation of the existence of universals | On the term anupalabdhi | Śākyabuddhi and Dharmottara on the inference of momentariness based on the absence of external causes of destruction | antarvyāpti and bahirvyāpti re-examined | Did Dharmakīrti think the Buddha had desires? | Dignāga, Bhāviveka and Dharmakīrti on apoha | Dharmakīrti’s intention to quote Pramāṇasamuccaya III 12 | Vācaspatimiśra and Jñānaśrīmitra on the object of yogipratyakṣa | Non-cognition and the third pramāṇa | What makes all the produced impermanent? Proof of impermanence and theory of causality | Reconsidering the fragment of the Bṛhaṭṭīkā on restriction (niyama)

The proceedings volume of the Fourth International Dharmakirti Conference, held in Vienna in 2005, includes a collection of thirty-six essays devoted to the work of one of the most influential philosophers of India, the sixth-century Buddhist scholar Dharmakirti. It is the next volume in a series of Dharmakirti conference proceedings that includes, to date, Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition (Vienna 1991) and Dharmakirti's Thought and Its Impact on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy (Vienna 1999). The papers in this volume present research on the Buddhist logical and epistemological tradition in India and Tibet, including its cultural, philosophical and religious significance, and also emphasize the tradition's import on non-Buddhist philosophy and religion. They also report on some of the remarkable (and very important) new textual sources that have become available in recent years, namely, newly discovered Sanskrit texts by Dharmakirti and his followers. The contributions provide a rigorous and detailed overview of tlle astonishing Progress that has been made in understanding the work of Dharmakirti and his successors. Moreover, a number of essays break new ground by demonstrating various non-Buddhist contexts in which Dharmakirti's work was taken up and dealt with critically 

Proceedings of the Fourth International Dharmakirti Conference Vienna, August 23‒7, 2005

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Religion and Logic in Buddhist Philosophical Analysis

Introduction | “Just Like Us, Just Like Now”: The Tactical Implications of the Mīmāṃsā Rejection of Yogic Perception | Yoga and our Epistemic Predicament | Meditation and Metaphysics: On their Mutual Relationship in South Asian Buddhism | Knowing Nothing: Candrakīrti and Yogic Perception | On the Career and the Cognition of Yogins | A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism | The Materiality and Immanence of Gnosis in Some rNying-ma Tantric Sources | The So-called Yoga of Suppression in the Pātañjala Yogaśāstra | Yogic Perception According to the Later Tradition of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta | Perceiving God and Becoming Like Him: Yogic Perception and Its Implications in the Viṣṇuitic Tradition of Pāñcarātra | Meditation and Contemplation in High to Late Medieval Europe | Shamans and Transformation in Nepal and Peninsular Malaysia | Transformation of Consciousness through Suffering, Devotion, and Meditation | Psychedelics, Culture, and Consciousness: Insights from the Biocultural Perspective | Altered States of Consciousness as Structural Variations of the Cognitive System | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy: The Revival of Indian Meditative Traditions within Modern Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Medicine | Empty Thy Mind and Come to Thy Senses: A De-constructive Path to Inner Peace | Contributors

The volume presents seventeen papers by different scholars that examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, questions concerning meditation and yogic perception. The contributions focus on various aspects, such as the nature of consciousness, the relation of body and mind, and health, and bind together the perspectives and approaches of disciplines such as South Asian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, religious studies, philosophy and the history of philosophy, medieval European history, anthropology and psychology. In contrast to recent interdisciplinary studies on meditation that take the natural sciences as their focal point (notably, quantum mechanics and neurophysiology), this volume uses methods established in the social sciences and humanities as tools for understanding meditative traditions, especially those found in Buddhism and Hinduism. 

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Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness

Das Spitzer-Manuskript ist eine der ältesten Sanskrithandschriften, die an der Seidenstraße gefunden wurde. Das in ihm erhaltene Werk ist ein Unikum; bis jetzt wurden keine weiteren Manuskripte dieses Werkes entdeckt und es ist auch nicht in tibetischer oder chinesischer Übersetzung überliefert. Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Einleitung, die den Forschungsstand zusammenfasst, grammatische, lexikalische und paläographische Aspekte des Werks diskutiert und eine Inhaltsübersicht bietet. \nHierauf folgt eine vollständige Faksimileausgabe der Fragmente zusammen mit ihren Transliterationen. Diese werden ergänzt durch Transkriptionen einiger verloren gegangener Fragmente, die dem Nachlass des Indologen Dr. Moritz Spitzer entnommen wurden. Eine Konkordanz stellt die heutige und frühere Anordnung der Fragmente gegenüber; eine ausführliche Zeichentabelle dokumentiert die Besonderheiten der Ku?a?a-Brahmã -Schrift des Manuskripts. Ein vollständiger Wortindex und eine Studie, die die Rekonstruktion des letzten Teils des Manuskripts zum Ziel hat, beschließen den Band. Neben Themen der buddhistischen Scholastik behandelt das Werk auch eine Zahl nicht-buddhistischer Themen, wie eine Vaise?ika-Theorie der Eigenschaften, die aus anderen Quellen nicht bekannt ist; ferner enthält es u. a. die älteste Liste der Bücher des Mahabharata und eine Aufzählung der vierundsechzig Künste und Wissenschaften. Der letzte Teil des Werkes ist der Dialektik gewidmet. 

Eli Franco

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Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, Band 56–57 (2015–2018) ‒ Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 56‒57 (2015‒2018)

Religion and Logic in Buddhist Philosophical Analysis

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