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This article examines two Buddhist explanations of how a conceptual cognition, whose object is a universal, can give rise to activity that leads to a particular. In both theories, that of Dharmottara and that of Ratnakīrti, this activity is due to a kind of error. A detailed investigation of how this error happens shows that there were big differences in the two underlying epistemological models.
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AP Jñānaśrīmitra. Apohaprakaraṇa. In JNĀ (pp. 201–232).
AS Ratnakīrti. Apohasiddhi. In RNĀ2 (pp. 58–66).
CAPV Ratnakīrti. Citrādvaitaprakāśavāda. In RNĀ2 (pp. 129–144).
DhAP Dharmottara. Apohaprakaraṇa. In Frauwallner 1937 (pp. 235–254).
JNĀ A. Thakur (Ed.) (1987). Jñānaśrīmitranibandhāvali. Buddhist Philosophical Works of Jñānaśrīmitra. Patna: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute.
NBṬ Dharmottara. Nyāyabinduṭīkā. In Malvania 1971.
NK Vācaspatimiśra. Nyāyakaṇikā. In Goswami 1984.
NM K2 B. Jayanta. Nyāyamañjarī. Bauddhair Apohadūṣaṇoddharaṇa. In Kataoka 2009 (pp. 473–458).
NMGBh Cakradhara. Nyāyamañjarīgranthibhaṅga. In Shah 1972.
NVTṬ Vācaspatimiśra. Nyāyavārttikatātparyaṭīkā. In Thakur 1996.
PVin 2 Dharmakīrti. Pramāṇaviniścaya 2. In Steinkellner 2007 (pp. 45–101).
RNĀ 1 A. Thakur (Ed.) (1957a). Ratnakīrtinibandhāvalī. Buddhist Nyāya Works of Ratnakīrti. Patna: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute.
RNĀ 2 A. Thakur (Ed.) (1975b). Ratnakīrti-nibandhāvaliḥ. Buddhist Nyāya Works of Ratnakīrti. Patna: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute.
RNĀms Ratnakīrti. Ratnakīrtinibandhāvali. A manuscript photographed by Sāṅkṛtyāyana. The negatives are kept in Patna (cf. Much 1988). I had available to me scans based on copies of those negatives, kept in the “Sammlung des Seminars für Indologie und Buddhismuskunde in Göttingen.” Cf. the description of item “Xc 14/26” in Bandurski (1994: 58–60), as well as Thakur (1975a). This ms is the basis for the two editions RNĀ1 and RNĀ2 . Jñānaśrīmitra. Sākārasiddhiśāstra.
SāSiŚā In JNĀ (pp. 367–513).
VP Aniruddha. Nyāyabhāṣyavārttikatātparyavivaraṇapanjikā. In Thakur 1969.
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Mc Allister, P. Ratnakīrti and Dharmottara on the Object of Activity. J Indian Philos 42, 309–326 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-013-9202-7
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