This volume provides the first modern translation of the recently found original Sanskrit text of Dharmakrti's Hetubindu (ca. 600 CE), the first Indian work of pure logic. The concise definitions and explanations of the central terms are enriched by several extensive digressions, such as on the pervasion (vypti) in the proof of momentariness of entities, with his conceptions of causality, and on the nature of non-perception or negative cognition (anupalabdhi), as well as by the supplement of a refutation of varasena's theorem of six characteristics for a logical reason (allakaahetu). The translation aims at making the content available to specialists in Indian epistemology and also to philosophers and logicians in general who have no knowledge of classical Sanskrit. It is provided with a short introduction and a detailed structural outline.

Autorentext
is retired full Prof. of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Vienna, and Guest Researcher at the Institute of the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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