Dharmakīrti’s Hetubindu
Critically edited by Ernst Steinkellner on the basis of preparatory work by Helmut Krasser with a transliteration of the Gilgit fragment by Klaus Wille
The Hetubindu, composed by the Buddhist philosopher and logician Dharmakīrti during his middle period (around 600 CE), develops further, with succinct formulations and elaborations on the formal structures and essential elements, his theory of logical reason and inference as he had presented it in the work of his youth, which later became the first chapter, on inference, of the Pramāṇavārttika together with an explanatory Vṛtti, and was refined in the second chapter of his Pramāṇaviniścaya. In...
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