Omniscience And The Rhetoric Of Reason: Santaraksita And Kamalasila On Rationality, Argumentation, And Religious Authority

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The great Buddhist writer Santaraksita (725-88) was central to the Buddhist traditions spread into Tibet. He and his disciple Kamalasila were among the most influential thinkers in classical India. They debated ideas not only within the Buddhist tradition but also with exegetes of other Indian religions, and they both traveled and nurtured Buddhism in Tibet during its infancy there. Their views, however, have been notoriously hard to classify. The present volume examines Santaraksita's encyclopedic Tattvasamgraha and Kamalasila's detailed commentary on that text in his Pa

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Book Name Omniscience And The Rhetoric Of Reason: Santaraksita And Kamalasila On Rationality, Argumentation, And Religious Authority
Author Sara L. Mcclintock
Publisher Wisdom Publications (ma) (Oct 2010)
ISBN 9780861716616
Pages 417
Language English
Price 1346
 
 

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