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Book Review: "Svarupa Sambodhana: Right Instruction on the Nature of the Soul," By Acarya Akalanka |
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| Author |
Cort, John E.
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| Source |
Religious Studies Review
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| Volume | v.37 n.4 |
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| Date | 2011.12.08 |
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| Pages | 299 - 300 |
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| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
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http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
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| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | SVARUPA SAMBODHANA: RIGHT INSTRUCTION ON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL . By Acarya Akalanka . Translated by Nagin J. Shah. Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series, Vol. 33 . Mumbai : Hindi Granth Karyalay , 2011 . Pp . 32 . Rs. 50 . |
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| Abstract | The Digambar Akalaṅka (fl. c. 720‐780) was the father of Jain logic. He studied in a Buddhist monastery, and so was fully conversant with this rival system. He is best known to scholars of Indian philosophy for his extensive criticism of the Buddhist logician Dharmakīrti. The Svarūpa Sambodhana is a short text of twenty‐six verses attributed to him. In it, Akalaṅka discusses the Jain theory of the soul (ātman), defending the Jain affirmation of its existence in contrast to the positions of Cārvāka materialism, Buddhist anātman, and Nyāya‐Vaiśeṣika theism. He employs the Jain logical tool of anekāntavāda to demonstrate that the soul is at once unitary in terms of sentience (cetanā) and manifold in terms of the types and modes of knowledge (jñāna). He explains how the soul is bound by karma, and describes the path to free it from karmic defilements. Key to this process is the basic Digambar Jain spiritual teaching of the need to differentiate self (sva) from other (para), or soul from all forms of physical matter. One then realizes the soul as distinct (kevala) from everything else. Akalaṅka's short treatise is translated by Nagin Shah, the leading contemporary scholar of Jain logic. Shah provides a useful introduction to the author and text, and detailed notes to the otherwise cryptically brief verses. The topic of the differing Indic understandings of the self or soul remains one of enduring scholarly interest; as a result, this booklet belongs on the shelf of every scholar of Indian thought. |
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| ISSN | 0319485X (P); 17480922 (E) |
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| Created date | 2014.11.05 |
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| Modified date | 2019.12.02 |
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