{"product_id":"an-eleventh-century-buddhist-logic-of-exists-ratnak-299-rtis-k-7779-a-7751-abha-7749-gasiddhi-7717-vyatirek-257-tmik-257-9789027700810","title":"An Eleventh-Century Buddhist Logic of 'Exists': Ratnak\u0026#299;rti's K\u0026#7779;a\u0026#7751;abha\u0026#7749;gasiddhi\u0026#7717; Vyatirek\u0026#257;tmik\u0026#257;","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): A. C. McDermott\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. RATNAKIRTI. HIS PHILOSOPHICAL CONGENERS AND ADVERSARIES Ratnakirti flourished early in the 11th century A. D. at the University of Vi- kramasila, a member of the Yogacara-Vijnanavada school oflate Buddhist philosophy. Thakur characterizes Ratnakirti's writing as \"more concise and logical though not so poetical\" 1 as that of his guru, Jfianasrimitra, two of 2 whose dicta are focal points of the present work. From a translogical or absolute point of view, Ratnakirti endorses a form of 3 solipsistic idealism. The Sarhtdndntaradu$alJa, his proof of solipsism written from the standpoint ofthe highest truth (paramdrtha), concludes that an exter- nal nonmental continuum is impossible. In ultimate reality the cognizing sub- ject, its act of awareness, and the cognized object coalesce - all are fabrications superposed on what is really an indivisible evanescent now (svalak$alJa). 4 As Ratnakirti's predecessors have put it: There is neither an 'I' nor a 'he' nor a 'you' nor even an 'it'; neither the thing, nor the not-thing; neither a law nor a system; neither the terms nor the relations. But there are only the cognitive events of colourless sensations which have forms but no names. They are caught for a moment in a stream and then rush to naught. Even the stream is a fiction. That sensum of the moment, the purest particular, that advaya, the indivisible unit of cognition, that is the sole reality, the rest are all fictions, stirred up by time-honoured 5 convention of language which is itself a grand fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46894490845335,"sku":"9789027700810","price":5667.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789027700810.webp?v=1770324835","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/an-eleventh-century-buddhist-logic-of-exists-ratnak-299-rtis-k-7779-a-7751-abha-7749-gasiddhi-7717-vyatirek-257-tmik-257-9789027700810","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}