The Sociology of Philosophies

movements in recent centuries, the conservative “Hinayana” sects were still institutionally most numerous. So when Hindu philoso ...

Mahayana camp to incorporate the prestige of Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmak- osha by interpreting it through the lens of Yogacara idea ...

like Leibniz’s criticism of “the labyrinth of the continuum”; one cannot say that there is an enduring, extended “thing” which c ...

The Double Revolution in Hindu Philosophy: Mimamsa Ultra-realism and Vedanta Non-dualism At the turn of the 700s, Hindu philosop ...

dana Mishra is there in the days of the Mimamsa-Advaita revolutions in the 700s; the great syncretizer Vacaspati Mishra is there ...

Gaudapada, Mandana, and Shankara now invade the monist side, and they do so with Buddhist conceptual tools, apparently acquired ...

and 200 c.e.), a conservative Brahman rejecting the new theisms, had held that rewards are not given by the gods but accrue from ...

within monism and pluralism, and developed a refined theory of negation as the key to resolving them. Prabhakara and Kumarila sh ...

mology of world illusion. Kumarila, however, works via the path of negation: errors arise by the imposition of non-presences (me ...

The outbreak of Advaita revolution inside the camp of Mimamsa radical- ism is especially clear in the case of Mandana Mishra. Re ...

Purva (earlier) Mimamsa (or Yajña-Mimamsa, the Mimamsa of sacrifice), and Uttara (later or higher) Mimamsa, concerned with the d ...

empirical self, it focuses on an absolute standpoint which is reached through the self.^56 The highest standpoint, that which is ...

Shankara as Turning Point of the Networks. Shankara’s creative energy came from his having grown up in close proximity to the su ...

strategy of formulating a Hindu orthodoxy extracted from the Upanishads. One such position was the theistic school of thought ca ...

man, pointed out the conundrum: if the plurality of selves is an illusion, how can one self become liberated without all the oth ...

internal disagreement in their intellectual stance. They have relatively little effect on the creative realignments of other fac ...

extreme group maintained its unity (Raju, 1985: 105; Basham, 1989: 64; Chattopadhyaya, 1972: 132; Zimmer, 1951: 210–211; OHI, 19 ...

Akalanka (600s–700s) joined the Buddhist-Hindu crossfire over logic. The Jainas added to the accepted logical categories another ...

Syncretism in Dying Buddhism The old Buddhist schools now drew together defensively. Shantarakshita and his pupil Kamalashila in ...

ramashila university, and the chain of founders of the major Tibetan sects (Tilopa–Naropa–Marpa–Mila Repa) derived from this tan ...