Author Affiliations: Department of the History of Religions, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University, 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564-8680, Japan
Working Definitions of Contingency, Dependence, and Necessity 420 Dharmakīrti’s Basic Position: Everything is Contingent 420 vināśa: Its Need to be an Exception for Dharmakīrti 421 Translating “vināśa”: Destruction or Perishing? 422 Decoupling Contingency and Necessity in Dharmakīrti: A Different Kind of Cause 422 Spatio-Temporal Implications of Non-contingency 424 The Cause of Non-contingent vināśa 425 Discussion 426 Opponents’ Reaction: Being Contingent and Being Necessary are not Contradictory 428 Śrīdhara’s Nyāyakandalī 428 Bhāsarvajña’s Nyāyabhūṣaṇa 429 Discussion 431 Full Necessity and Contingency/Dependency 434 Conclusion 434
