Horin: Comparative Studies in Japanese Culture: Special Issue, Buddhist Logic

The contributions to this volume are the result of an international symposium on the role of logic in Buddhism held at the Japanese (EKO) Culture Center in the city of Düsseldorf/Germany in autumn 2003.
Gregor Paul: Introduction • Klaus Glashoff: Using formulas for the interpretation of ancient Indian logic • Claus Oetke: In which sense are Indian theories of inference non-monotonic? • Gregor Paul: Logic in Buddhist texts. With particular reference to the Zhonglun • Takashi Iwata: On the concept of necessity in Buddhist texts – from the perspectives of the Yogācāras and the Buddhist logical tradition • Tom J. F. Tillemans: The slow death of the trairūpya in Buddhist logic: A propos of Sa skya Pandita • Pascale Hugon: Interpretations of the trairūpya in Tibet • Shoryu Katsura: Paksa, Sapaksa and Asapaksa in Dignāga’s Logic • Helmut Krasser: Are Buddhist Pramānavādins non-Buddhistic? Dignāga and Dharmakīrti on the impact of logic and epistemology on emancipation • Birgit Kellner: First logic, then the Buddha? The controversy about the chapter sequence of Dharmakīrti’s Pramānavārttika and the soteriological relevance of inference • Volker Beeh: Argument and logic in the eighth chapter of Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikās and in Candrakīrti’s Commentary • Shinya Moriyama: Is the proof of the omniscient Buddha possible? • Eli Franco: Xuanzang’s proof of idealism (vijñaptimātratā) • Annette L. Heitmann: Insight into reality (tattvajñāna) as defined in 6th century Indian Madhyamaka