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Prāsaṅgika epistemology: A reply to Stag tsang's charge against Tsongkhapa's uses of Pramāṇa in Candrakīrti's philosophy

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posted on 2023-05-17, 19:45 authored by Sonam ThakchoeSonam Thakchoe
Stag tsang, amongst others, has argued that any use of mundane pramāṇa — authoritative cognition — is incompatible with the Prāsaṅgika system. His criticism of Tsongkhapa’s interpretation of Candrakīrti’s Madhyamaka which insists on the uses of pramāṇa (tha snyad pa’i tshad ma) — authoritative cognition — within the Prāsaṅgika philosophical context is that it is contradictory and untenable. This paper is my defence of Tsongkhapa’s approach to pramāṇa in the Prāsaṅgika philosophy. By showing that Tsongkhapa consistently adopts a non-foundationalist approach in his interpretation of the Prāsaṅgika’s epistemology, and by showing that he emphatically denies any place for the foundationalist epistemology of Dignāga and Dharmakīrti in the Prāsaṅgika system, I will argue that Tsongkhapa’s epistemology emerges from Stag tsang’s criticisms unscathed.

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Publication title

Journal of Indian Philosophy

Volume

41

Issue

5

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535-561

ISSN

1573-0395

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School of Humanities

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Springer

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Dordrecht

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Copyright 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

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