Buddhist Logic (2 Vols. Set)

Motilal Banarsidass International

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  • ISBN:  9788119196029 (VOL. 1)
  • ISBN:  9788119196265 (VOL. 2)
  • ISBN:  9788119196081 (2 Vols. Set)
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Edition: 1st
  • No. of Pages: 5 57 (Vol. 1), 468 (Vol. 2)
  • Language: English

 

ABOUT THE BOOK : Buddhist logic reveals itself as the culminating point of a long course of Indian philosophic history. Its birth, its growth and its decline run parallel with the birth, the growth and the decline of Indian civilization.  The time has come to reconsider the subject of Buddhist logic in its historical connections. This is done in these two volumes.  In the copious notes the literary renderings are given where needed. This will enable the reader fully to appreciate the sometimes enormous distance which lies between the words of the Sanskrit phrasing and their philosophic meaning rendered according to our habits of thought. The notes also contain a philosophic comment of the translated  texts. The first volume contains a historical sketch as well as a synthetical reconstruction of the whole edifice of the final shape of Buddhist philosophy.  The second volume contains the material as well as the justification for this reconstruction.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoy or Stcherbatsky (Фёдор Ипполи́тович Щербатско́й) (11 September (N.S.) 1866 – 18 March 1942[1]), often referred to in the literature as F. Th. Stcherbatsky, was a Russian Indologist who, in large part, was responsible for laying the foundations in the Western world for the scholarly study of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. He was born in Kielce, Poland (Russian Empire), and died at the Borovoye Resort[2] in northern Kazakhstan.

Stcherbatsky studied in the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum (graduating in 1884), and later in the Historico-Philological Faculty of Saint Petersburg University (graduating in 1889), where Ivan Minayeff and Serge Oldenburg were his teachers. Subsequently, sent abroad, he studied Indian poetry with Georg Bühler in Vienna, and Buddhist philosophy with Hermann Jacobi in Bonn. In 1897, he and Oldenburg inaugurated Bibliotheca Buddhica, a library of rare Buddhist texts.