Śaṃkarasvāmin
| Wylie | bde byed bdag po |
|---|---|
| English Phonetics | Śaṃkarasvāmin |
| Sort Name | Śaṃkarasvāmin |
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Biographical Information
Śaṃkarasvāmin. (T. Bde byed bdag po; C. Shangjieluozhu; J. Shökarashu; K. Sanggallaju 商羯羅主) (c. sixth Century CE). Sanskrit proper name of an Indian philosopher and logician, who was a student of the Indian logician Dignāga. Śaṃkarasvāmin is credited with the authorship of the Nyāyapraveśa, or "Primer on Logic," which became an important work in many Asian schools. Some have argued, based on the Tibetan tradition, that the Nyāyapraveśa was actually written by Śaṃkarasvāmin's teacher Dignāga, and that the recension translated into Chinese is a version that Śaṃkarasvāmin later edited. The Nyāyapraveśa provides an introduction to the logical system of Dignāga, covering such subjects as valid and invalid methods of proof, methods of refutation, perception, erroneous perception, inference, and erroneous inference. Although Śaṃkarasvāmin's work was not as extensive, detailed, or original Dignāga's, it proved to be popular within the tradition, as attested by its extensive commentarial literature, including exegeses by non-Buddhists. Large parts of the work survive in the original Sanskrit. (Source: "Śaṃkarasvāmin." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 755. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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