...This essay examines the Madhyamaka critique preceding the logico-epistemological school, treating Nāgārjuna’s Vigrahavyāvartanī. The author also analyses the important connections with Nyāya thought as an argumentative background against which the Buddhists developed their theories...

...This introductory chapter begins with a description of the history of the Vigrahavyāvartanī. It then considers arguments regarding the authenticity of the Vigrahavyāvartanī and discusses the structure of the Vigrahavyāvartanī. Vigrahavyāvartanī Sāṇkṛtyāyana Rāhula Dharmakīrti Vaidalyaprakaraṇa...

...This chapter presents an English translation of the Vigrahavyāvartanī. dependent origination conventional truth Vigrahavyāvartanī translation philosophical texts Veneration to the Buddha! 1. If the substance of all things is not to be found anywhere, your assertion which is devoid of substance...

...This chapter addresses a more specific and more pointed instance of paradox at the bounds of expression, considering Nāgārjuna's remarks in the Vigrahavyāvartanī and the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā to the effect that neither he nor the Buddha asserts any thesis, has any...

...This chapter presents a commentary on the Vigrahavyāvartanī, which has been divided into 10 sections. These sections are: The Status of the Theory of Emptiness [1-4, 21-29]; Epistemology [5-6, 30-51]; Intrinsically Good Things [7-8, 52-56]; Names without Objects [9, 57-59]; Extrinsic Substances [10...

... conventional existence vyavahāra negation realism superimposition samāropa conventions two kinds of simple designators Nyāya theory of thesis pratijnñā language semantics Vigrahavyāvartanī Nāgārjuna realist semantics In contrast to such topics as causation, motion, the self, and the theory...