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Dignāga (also known as Diṅnāga, c. 480 – c. 540 CE) was an Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician. He is credited as one of the Buddhist founders of Indian logic ( hetu vidyā ). Dignāga's work laid the groundwork for the development of deductive logic in India and created the first system of Buddhist logic and epistemology ...
Dignāga [alt. Diṅnāga] (T. phyogs glang; C. chenna 陳那) (c. 480 – c. 540 CE) was an Indian Buddhist scholar whose work laid the groundwork for the development of deductive logic in India and created the first system of Buddhist logic and epistemology.
Dignāga (born c. 480 ce —died c. 540) was a Buddhist logician and author of the Pramāṇasamuccaya (“Compendium of the Means of True Knowledge”), a work that laid the foundations of Buddhist logic.
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Sep 28, 2016 · Dignāga followed the lead of the Vaiśeṣikas, who allowed only perception and inference as providers of valid knowledge. Dignāga tightened the rules for making and recognizing valid inferences, which forced all his rivals, Buddhist and non-Buddhist, to eventually revise their own doctrines and treatises.
Jan 15, 2015 · Dignāga (also spelled “Diṅnāga,” b. c. 480–d. c. 540 CE) and Dharmakīrti (b. c. 600–d. c. 660 CE) decisively influenced the course not only of Buddhist philosophy, but of Indian philosophy more generally. Previous to Dignāga, Buddhist philosophical thought had been advanced predominantly in the discourse of Abhidharma ...
Dignaga ( Phyogs-kyi glang-pa, Skt. Dignāga) was born around 480 CE to a brahmin family in Simhavakta, in southern India. Initially, he became a monk of the Vatsiputriya ( gNas-ma bu, Skt. Vātsīputrīya) school and studied under the teacher Nagadatta.
Jul 27, 2017 · The Indian Buddhist philosophers Dignāga ( c. 480–540 ce) and Dharmakīrti ( c. 600–660 ce) decisively influenced the course not only of Buddhist philosophy, but of Indian philosophy more generally.
