140030 UE Kumarila: Slokavarttika, Sunyavada (2019W)
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Su 01.09.2019 08:00 to Th 03.10.2019 11:00
- Deregistration possible until Th 31.10.2019 23:59
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max. 24 participants
Language: English
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- Wednesday 09.10. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 16.10. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 23.10. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 30.10. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 06.11. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 13.11. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 20.11. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 27.11. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 04.12. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Wednesday 11.12. 13:30 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
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Aims, contents and method of the course
For students who wish to delve deeper into the Buddhist-Brahmin debate about the nature of consciousness, specifically the relation between cognition and object. In the Śūnyavāda chapter of his Ślokavārttika the great 6th-century Mīmāṃsā philosopher Kumārila subjects the Buddhist view that the “form” apprehended in a perceptual cognition belongs only to the cognition, and not to some external object, to intense criticism. We shall read Kumārila’s text together with the commentaries of Umbeka, Sucaritamiśra, and Pārthasārathimiśra, paying close attention to nuances of the Buddhist position and the stage reached by Buddhists in thinking about this problem by Kumārila’s time.
Assessment and permitted materials
Assessment: to be determined.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
Reading list
Bibliography:
ŚV(T): Sāstrī, K. S. (ed.). Mīmāṃsā Slokavārtika with the Commentary Kasika of Sucaritamiśra. Trivandrum 1926, 1929 (reprint Trivandrum: CBH Publications 1990).
ŚV(B): Śāstrī, D. (ed.). Ślokavārttika of Śrī Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, with the Commentary Nyāyaratnākara of Śrī Pārthasārathimiśra. Varanasi: Tara Publications 1978.
ŚV(M): Sastri, S. K. R. (ed.), revised by K. K. Raja and R. Thangaswamy. Ślokvavārtikavyākhyā Tātparyaṭīkā of Uṃveka Bhaṭṭa. Madras: University of Madras 1971.
Taber, John. “Kumārila’s Buddhist.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 38 (2010): 279–296.
ŚV(T): Sāstrī, K. S. (ed.). Mīmāṃsā Slokavārtika with the Commentary Kasika of Sucaritamiśra. Trivandrum 1926, 1929 (reprint Trivandrum: CBH Publications 1990).
ŚV(B): Śāstrī, D. (ed.). Ślokavārttika of Śrī Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, with the Commentary Nyāyaratnākara of Śrī Pārthasārathimiśra. Varanasi: Tara Publications 1978.
ŚV(M): Sastri, S. K. R. (ed.), revised by K. K. Raja and R. Thangaswamy. Ślokvavārtikavyākhyā Tātparyaṭīkā of Uṃveka Bhaṭṭa. Madras: University of Madras 1971.
Taber, John. “Kumārila’s Buddhist.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 38 (2010): 279–296.
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MATB3b (UE a), MASK3a
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