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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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Thakchoe, Sonam, Prāsaṅgika epistemology: A reply to Stag tsang's charge against Tsongkhapa's uses of Pramāṇa in Candrakīrti's philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 41, (5) pp. 535-561. ISSN 1573-0395 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/s10781-013-9186-3
Abstract
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.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Research Group: | Philosophy |
| Research Field: | Epistemology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
| UTAS Author: | Thakchoe, Sonam (Dr Sonam Thakchoe) |
| ID Code: | 86652 |
| Year Published: | 2013 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
| Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2013-10-08 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-02-13 |
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