The Tibetan Iconography of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and other Deities
author: Lokesh Chandra
edition: 2002, D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 807
ISBN-10: 812460178X
ISBN-13: 9788124601785
Topic: Tibetan-buddhism
Dharmakirti
This chapter describes Dharmakirti located on page 20 and contained in the collection "Teachers (Guru) : Prajna Teachers" in the book Tibetan Iconography (a unique pantheon). This book deals with the iconography of deities within the Pantheon of Tibetan Buddhism, such as Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Matrkas (Goddesses), Gurus (Teachers), Protective Deities and various other spiritual entities. The Buddhist art and iconography in this book is accompanied by Chinese eulogies.
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A comparative study between Buddhism and Nyaya [by Roberta Pamio]
Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna, June 11-16, 1989. Edited by E. Steinkellner, Wien: Verlag der Ӧsterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1991. 7. Dharmakirti s thought and its impact on Indian and Tibetan philosophy. Proceedings of the Third international Dharmakirti Conference, Hiroshima, November 4-6, 1997. Edited by S. Katsura, Wien: Ӧsterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1999. 8....
Read full contents: Review of Literature
Reverberations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy [by Birgit Kellner]
Elisa Freschi s blog: Thinking about through Sanskrit (and) philosophy, http://elisafreschi. com/2014/08/26/third-day-at-the-iabs-fran co-on-the-datation-of-dharmakirti-and-some-further-thoughts-on-dharmakirti-dignaga-kumarila/. (* 8) Buddhism and Its Relation to Other Religion: Essays in Honour of Dr. Shozen Kumoi on his Seventieth Birthday. Kyoto 1985, 161–172. (* 9) In the meantime published in revised form as Dignaga s Philosophy of Language....
Read full contents: Opening Speech by Shoryu Katsura
The Buddhist Philosophy of Universal Flux [by Satkari Mookerjee]
This fact distinguishes Dharmakirti’s theory of perception from that of Kant, who believes the thing-in-itself (svalakshana of Dharmakirti) to be unknown and unknowable and from that of the naïve realists, who makes human knowledge a closed circle out of all touch with external reality. I have therefore not hesitated to characterise the realism of Dharmakirti’s school as Critical Realism in contra-distinction to tbe naive Realism of the Cartesian school....
Read full contents: Chapter XXI - The Theory of Perception as propounded by Dharmakirti and Dharmottara
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