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Calcutta University Readership Lectures. On Some Aspects of the Doctrines of Maitreyan (Natha) and Asanga (Being a course of five lectures delivered at the University of Calcutta)

1930

This form, the anti- quity of which is proved by the fact that it occurs also in the Tibetan translation of the same work and which is to be found also in the colophon of the commentary upon the Bhavasankriinti shows that though born in a family of worshippers or be lievers of the Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Yoglicara master must have been quite different from the Maitreya of the Mahayana scriptures [...] Some texts tried to solve the apparent contradiction between Hinayana and Mahayana teachings by having recourse to the able theory of the double truth, the saorevrti- satya and the paramii rtha-satya which was soon grafted on the other doctrine, characteristically Mahayana/. 20 MA1TREYA[NATH. 1] of the upayakaugalat:i of the Buddha and the fundamental variety of the beings, which implies that if the [...] The fundamental moments of this process are represented by the trisarvajilata, viz. , the three-fold omniscience, the sarvajilata, simple omniscience of the dritvakas and pratyekabuddhas; the margafilata belonging to the bodhisattvas, and the sarvaketrajitata , the complete wisdom of the Buddha, which represents the final goal of theFUNDAMENTAL THEORIES 23 way. [...] That is why epistemo- logy plays such a large part in the new nyaya treatises ; the relation between subject and object, the validity of our sources of knowledge and the real nature of the object form the most important topics discussed in the new manuals inspired by44 MAITREYA[NATHA] AND ASA&GA the idealistic system of the Yogi-teal-as or of the Vijilanavadins, the main feature of which is to den [...] But though the classification of Patailjali shows a certain simila- rity with the list of the avaranas given by Caraka and the SalIkhya-texts and that of the gatagitstra, our enumeration seems to be quite independent, not only as regards the number of the eivaratzas which are four instead of eight, but also as regards terminology and the principle itself of the classi- fication.
philosophy religion
Pages
87
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii G. Tucci view
I Maitreya[Natha] and his Works
1-17 unknown view
II The Fundamental Theories of Maitreya[Natha]
18-35 unknown view
III The Beginning of Buddhist Logic and the Logical Theories of Maitreya[Natha] and Asanga
36-51 unknown view
IV The Logical Theories of Maitreya[Natha] and Asanga
52-66 unknown view
V The Beginning of Buddhist Logic
67-81 unknown view
Backmatter
i-2 unknown view

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