Shankarananda

Tibetan-preserved works by Shankarananda on Buddhist logic, exclusion, relation, and epistemological reasoning.

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  • 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.