A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
Call for Applications Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jain Studies About the Fellowship The Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jain Studies. The fellowship is designed to support an outstanding early-career Continue reading Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jain Studies
Karin Meyers’s work on the “damned topics” of Buddhist philosophy is most powerful on the topic of rebirth. Because that’s the place where there’s actually some reasonably powerful evidence for the “damned topic”. Where I think she goes too far Continue reading You still have to naturalize karma
My 2010 article (“Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Elaboration of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana), and How it Differs from Dharmakīrti’s Exposition of the Concept”) listed eight differences between self-awareness (svasaṃvedana) and I-cognition (ahampratyaya). (Pre-modern Indian philosophers could be divided into three groups, depending on whether Continue reading Is I-cognition ‘the same for everyone’?
American University philosopher Karin Meyers made an important contribution to Buddhist philosophical studies with her 2016 essay “The damned topics of Buddhist philosophy“. The essay (available free online) has never been formally published, though it clearly deserves to be: when Continue reading On the damned topics of Buddhist philosophy