29 April 2018 – The Indian Philosophy Blog

Buddhaghosa on seeing things as they are (2)

Posted on 29 April 2018 by Amod Lele — 1 Comment ↓

I continue my argument from last time dissenting from Maria Heim and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s interpretation of Buddhaghosa. I turn to a second passage that Heim and Ram-Prasad use – incorrectly, in my view – to claim Buddhaghosa is not trying Continue reading Buddhaghosa on seeing things as they are (2)→

Insults, Slurs, and Other Pejorative Speech

Posted on 29 April 2018 by Malcolm Keating — 2 Comments ↓

Anyone who is familiar with premodern Indian philosophy written in Sanskrit knows that philosophers were not above using insults in their work. J.M. Verpoorten (2002) has a paper collecting these insults, which include akṛta-buddhi (having an unformed mind), paśu (animal, Continue reading Insults, Slurs, and Other Pejorative Speech→

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