Language and reality [electronic resource] : on an episode in Indian thought / by Johannes Bronkhorst ; translated from the French by Michael S. Allen and Rajam Raghunathan.
Language: English Original language: French Series: Brill's Indological library ; v. 36.Publication details: Boston : Brill, 2011.Edition: Rev. and with a new appendixDescription: xiii, 170 pISBN:- 9789004204355 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9789004204744 (e-book)
- Langage et r�ealit�e. English
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- B132.S4 B7613 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aim of the lectures -- Early Brahmanical literature -- Panini's grammar -- A passage from the Chandogya Upanisad -- The structures of languages -- The Buddhist contribution -- Vaisesika and language -- Verbal knowledge -- The contradictions of Nagarjuna -- The reactions of other thinkers -- Sarvastivada Samkhya -- The Agamasastra of Gaudapada -- Sankara -- Kashmiri Saivism -- Jainism -- Early Vaisesika -- Critiques of the existence of a thing before its arising -- Nyaya -- Mimamsa -- The Abhidharmakosa bhasya of Vasubandhu -- The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asanga and its bhasya -- Bhartrhari -- The problem of negation -- Dignaga and verbal knowledge -- The Bodhisattvabhumi -- Prajnakaragupta -- Indian thinkers and the correspondence principle -- Appendix. The Mahaprajnaparamitasastra and the Samkhya tanmatras.
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Rev. and updated English ed. of: Langage et r�ealit�e : sur un �episode de la pens�ee indienne.