Caste and Buddhist Philosophy Continuity of Some Buddhist Arguments against the Realist Interpretation of Social Denominations 1st Edition by Vincent Eltschinge ISBN 812083559X 978-8120835597

 

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ISBN 10: 812083559X

ISBN 13: 978-8120835597 

Author: Vincent Eltsching

 From the sixth to the eighth century CE, the Buddhist philosophers paid considerable attention to the issue of the caste-classes. Far from seeking to reform the non-Buddhist social environment, they endeavoured to undermine theoretical attempts at “naturalizing” the social statuses, especially Kumarila’s doctrine of the perceptibility of jati. Significant parts of their critique is strongly indebted to earlier, mainly canonical arguments shaped in order to neutralize the Brahmins’ pride in caste. But closer scrutiny also reveals the innovations that were made possible by the renewal of Buddhist semantics around the so-called apoha (“exclusion”) theory. Eltschinger’s study presents the gist of the early Buddhist arguments, the modalities of their appropriation by later philosophers as well as the new developments induced by the epistemologists.

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Chapter 1 – Canonical Antecedents
1.1 Outline of a Buddhist Explanation
1.2 Biological Arguments: Animal and Plant Species
1.3 Genealogical Arguments
1.4 Unstable Brahmanity

Chapter 2 – Dharmakirti and His Successors
2.1 Before and Around Dharmakirti

2.1.1 Introduction
2.1.1.1 Vasubandhu Against the Homogeneous Character (Sabhagata/Nikayasabhaga)
2.1.1.2 Aryadeva and Candrakirti
2.1.1.3 Dharmapala and the Brahmanic Usurpation
2.1.2 Dharmakirti and the Reformulation of the Polemic
2.1.2.1 Internal Explanation: The Theory of Exclusion (Apoha)
2.2 Context and Problematic of Dharmakirti’s Discussion
2.3 Dharmakirti Against the Class Jati

2.3.1 Immediate Context
2.3.2 The Argument
2.3.3 Explanation
2.3.4 Conclusion
2.4 On the Perceptibility of Class Jati

2.4.1 Kumarila
2.4.2 Dharmakirti
2.4.3 Prajñakaragupta
2.5 Post-Dharmakirtian Developments of the Argumentation

2.5.1 Biological and Genealogical Arguments
2.5.2 The “True Brahmins”: Substitution of the Paradigm of Brahmanity
2.5.3 Activity (Kriya) and Sacraments (Samskara)
2.5.4 Lineage (Gotra) and Genealogy
2.5.5 Superior Capacities of Brahmins
2.5.6 Conclusions
Chapter 3 – Conclusions
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Indices

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