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142211 SE Dharmakirti on the import of words: selected passages (2020S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 24 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 05.03. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 19.03. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 26.03. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 02.04. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 23.04. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 30.04. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 07.05. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 14.05. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 28.05. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 04.06. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 18.06. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Thursday 25.06. 10:15 - 11:45 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In a long passage in his so-called Pramāṇavārtikasvavṛtti, his longest text on this topic, Dharmakīrti –connecting to Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya, in debate with the rival schools Nyāya, Sāṃkhya, Mimāṃsā etc., in discussing various logical and philosophical problems -- develops a theory on the “import of words”, concept and concept-formation, focusing on the notion of the “exclusion from other” (anyāpoha).
This course consists in a reading of selected passages of the Sanskrit text of the Pramāṇavārtikasvavṛtti (and its Tibetan translation) considering, as case may be, the commentary of Śākyabuddhi (Tibetan) and Karṇakagomin (Sanskrit).
Texts:
Raniero Gnoli, The Pramāṇavārttikam of Dharmakīrti. The First Chapter with the Autocommentary. Text and Critical Notes. Roma 1960 (Serie Orientale Roma 23).
Pramāṇavārttikaṭikā (Śākyabuddhi): Tshad ma rnam ’grel gyi ’grel bśad. sDe dge Tibetan Tripiṭaka bsTan ’gyur. Tshad ma 3. Tokyo 1982.
Pramāṇavārttika(sva)vṛttiṭikā (Karṇakagomin): ācārya-Dharmakīrteḥ Pramāṇavārttikam (svārthānumānaparicchedaḥ) svopajñavṛttyā Karṇakagomiviracitayā Taṭṭīkayā ca sahitam. Ed. Rāhula Sāṅkṛtyāyana. Allahabad 1943

Assessment and permitted materials

Continous assessement course: texts to be prepared and revised from week to week, 1 final written paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation in class 40%, homework 40%, 1 final paper 20%.

Examination topics

The texts read in class.

Reading list

Apoha. Buddhist nominalism and human cognition, ed. by Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, and Arindam Chakrabarti. New York: Columbia University Press 2011.

Vincent Eltschinger (2010): Dharmakīrti. Revue International de Philosophie, vol. 64, no 253, 397-440.

Vincent Eltschinger, John Taber, Michael Torsten Much, Isabelle Ratié (2018): Dharmakīrti's Theory of Exclusion (apoha). Part 1. On Concealing. An Annotated Translation of Pramāṇavārttikasvavṛtti 24,16-45,20 (Pramāṇavārttika 1.40-91). Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies (Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monographic Series 36).

Erich Frauwallner (1932): Beiträge zur Apohalehre. I. Dharmakīrti. Übersetzung. WZKM 39, 247-285.
Erich Frauwallner (1933): Beiträge zur Apohalehre. I. Dharmakīrti. Übersetzung. (Fortsetzung). WZKM 40, 51-94.
Erich Frauwallner (1935): Beiträge zur Apohalehre. I. Dharmakīrti. Zusammenfassung. WZKM 42, 93-102.
Erich Frauwallner (1937): Beiträge zur Apohalehre. II. Dharmottara. WZKM 44, 233-287.
Nachdrucke in: Erich Frauwallner (1982): Kleine Schriften. Wiesbaden: Steiner (Glasenapp-Stiftung 22).

Shoryu Katsura (1979): The Apoha Theory of Dignāga. Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū 28/1, 493-489.
Shoryu Katsura (1984): Dharmakīrti’s theory of truth. JIPh 12, 215-235.
Shoryū Katsura (1991): Dignāga and Dharmakīrti on apoha, in: Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition, Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakīrti Conference, Vienna, June 11-16, 1989. Ed. E. Steinkellner. Wien (ÖAW, phil.-hist. Kl. 222, BKGA 8), 129-146.

Ernst Steinkellner (1971): Wirklichkeit und Begriff bei Dharmakīrti. WZKS 15, 179-211.

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