Buddhist Logic

By Theodore Stcherbatsky

Book Overview

Buddhist Logic V1 1930 is a comprehensive book written by Theodore Stcherbatsky, a renowned scholar of Buddhism and Sanskrit. The book is a detailed exploration of the intricate and complex system of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486209555
• ISBN13: 9780486209555
• Release Date: June 1962
• Publisher: Dover Pubns
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A work that stcks with you for ever

I read this book way back in the '60's. It is laboriously written and the reading of it is slow. The true magic of it is that Prof. Stcherbatsky brings in epistemological strands from many philosophic sources and assembles them in one argument, which, for me has always been "the point-instant of reality". Some will disagree, though in my meditation practice and further readings, it is not so very much a wild inference...

An Appeal to Authority

Serious students of Buddhist thought will be well acquainted with the large body of work of Edward Conze, one of the most highly regarded western scholars of Buddhism. In the Preface to his often-cited book "Buddhist Thought in India," Conze writes: "Stcherbatsky's 'Buddhist Logic' (1930, 1932; 1,018 pages) is a masterpiece of the first order, and in a class by itself. I feel almost ashamed to write on the same subject with so much less space at my disposal." Coming from an acknowledged authority such as Conze, a man not known for bestowing unearned praise on other Buddhist works, a recommendation this enthusiastic must carry significant weight.

excellent means to exit from logic

this buddhist logic of epistemological-logic has a built-in self-destructive logic in it. When you discover that the ordinary redkneck shares the same fate with the philosopher as far as his innate natural-logic goes, it simpely takes you to the last frontier of buddhist logic where you discover the fact that all humanbeings of all races are naturally ignorant! Unconsciously,dharmakhirti has literally outwitted the very purpose of epistemological sciences by illustrating that there is no logic beyond the logic of whatever experience you are going through!this is the kind of book who knows its diciple! it is not meant for every thinker!