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Shankarananda
Tibetan-preserved works by Shankarananda on Buddhist logic, exclusion, relation, and epistemological reasoning.
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Texts
Establishing Exclusion — ShankaranandaA treatise on Buddhist epistemology defending Dignāga's doctrine of exclusion (apoha) — that conceptual cognition works by excluding what things are not. By the Indian logician Śaṅkarananda. First English translation from Classical Tibetan.Establishing Relations — SankaranandaTwenty-one verses on the necessary connection that makes valid reasoning possible, by the Indian Buddhist logician Śaṅkarānanda, known as the second Dharmakīrti. First English translation from Classical Tibetan.Following the Examination of Relations — ShankaranandaA comprehensive refutation of the real existence of relations, supplementing Dharmakirti's Examination of Relations, by the tenth-century Indian Buddhist logician Shankarananda. First English translation from Classical Tibetan.