Some useful link for Orientalists
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Some useful link for Orientalists

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· Blogs Avacūrikā AWOL – The Ancient World Online Dans le sillage d’Advayavajra Digital Resources for Buddhist Studies earlyTibet Granthinām – Daniel Stender’s blog on Sanskrit philology and associated issues In texts, through thoughts, with pleasure Indological Provocations Jayarava’s Raves Jigtenmig – Classical Tibetan Language Blog New Indology Philologia Tibetica prātibhaṃ netram reading Tibetan manuscripts… Continue reading Some useful link for Orientalists

Buddhist Texts · Cārvāka/Lokāyata

♦ Avalokitavrata and a Cārvāka stanza: some textual consideration

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In Avalokitavrata’s (fl. 700 CE ca.) Ṭīkā we find a quote of a well-known Cārvāka stanza (see D, dBu-ma, Źa, 334b7-335a1): ma śi’i bar du bde bar ’tsho | | śi zin phan chad spyod yul med | | lus ni thal bar gyur pa la | | phyir yaṅ ’oṅ ba ga la yod… Continue reading ♦ Avalokitavrata and a Cārvāka stanza: some textual consideration

Buddhist philosophy and psychology · Buddhist Texts · Cārvāka/Lokāyata

♦ The svabhāvavāda as expounded in the Skhalita-pramathana-yuktā-hetu-siddhi

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One of the works that happens to me to deal with from time to time is the Skhalita-pramathana-yuktā-hetu-siddhi, attributed to Āryadeva. Today I’d like to put forward few considerations on the svabhāvavāda section (pūrvapakṣa only) contained in this writing. In what follows I provide the critical edition, the translation and an explanation of the section:… Continue reading ♦ The svabhāvavāda as expounded in the Skhalita-pramathana-yuktā-hetu-siddhi

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♦ Dharma Pātañjala

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Andrea Acri, Dharma Pātañjala; A Śaiva Scripture from Ancient Java Studied in the Light of Related Old Javanese and Sanskrit Texts, Egbert Forsten 2012, pp. xviii + 706. Gonda Indological Series XVI The book presents an edition, English translation and study of the Dharma Pātañjala, a previously unpublished Old Javanese-Sanskrit Śaiva scripture transmitted through a single palm-leaf codex… Continue reading ♦ Dharma Pātañjala

Buddhist Texts

♦ Who knows which work of Diṅnāga this stanza is taken from?

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In the 5th chapter of the Madhyamakaratnapradīpa (MRP) we find the following stanza, attributed to Diṅnāga (sDe-dge 272b4-5): slob dpon phyogs kyi glaṅ pos kyaṅ | ’di na mya ṅan ’das lam groṅ khyer du | | de bźin gśegs pa’i gsuṅ gi ñi ma’i ’od can gyis | | bdag med śes pa’i ’phags… Continue reading ♦ Who knows which work of Diṅnāga this stanza is taken from?

Buddhist philosophy and psychology · Buddhist Texts · lingua tibetica

♦ Madhyamakaratnapradīpa: an untraced quotation debating cittamātra from a Candrakīrtipāda’s work

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In the 7th chapter of the Madhyamakaratnapradīpa, a work traditionally attributed to Bhāviveka, while discussing some fundamental concepts of the cittamātra doctrine, the author inserts an interesting quotation which is attributed to (the tantric?) Candrakīrtipāda (zLa-ba-grags-pa’i-źal-sṅa-na). Unfortunately, the original text from which the citation was taken remains still untraced. Nevertheless, what is interesting here, is… Continue reading ♦ Madhyamakaratnapradīpa: an untraced quotation debating cittamātra from a Candrakīrtipāda’s work

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♦ Fund-finding campain for “Digital Dharma” a documentary on E. Gene Smith

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Today I have received an email from my friend Lara Maconi concerning a fund-finding campain for a documentary on E. Gene Smith (here some among the principal obituaries from newspapers: The Economist, The NY Times, The Telegraph, The Washington Post). Althought the documentary is almost completed, few but essential things are still to be done. The… Continue reading ♦ Fund-finding campain for “Digital Dharma” a documentary on E. Gene Smith

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♦ A new tool for monitorizing how many people come across this blog and from where

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The particular contents of this blog, and the fact that I add more or less only one post per month, are two relevant factors that contribute, on the one side, to select the visitors on the basis of their interests and, on the other side, to keep the number of visitors low. Indeed, and of… Continue reading ♦ A new tool for monitorizing how many people come across this blog and from where

Cārvāka/Lokāyata

♦ Vātsyāyana’s critique of the materialistic theory of cognition

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As is well-known, according to Indian Cārvāka/Lokāyata materialism (on account of which see here) cognition (jñāna, but also caitanya) emerges only where and when the material elements (earth, water, fire and air) are mixed up to constitute a physical living body. This perspective has been, of course, criticized by lots of non-Cārvaka philosophers in lots… Continue reading ♦ Vātsyāyana’s critique of the materialistic theory of cognition