2014/06/30 by Matthew Kapstein · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Indian and Buddhist Studies #Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought #Medieval and Classical Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1017/s1358246114000083
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Abstract In accord with the theme of the present volume on ‘Philosophical Traditions’, it is not so much the aim of this essay to provide a detailed account of particular lines of argument, as it is to suggest something of the manner in which so-called 'Buddhist idealism' unfolded as a tradition not just for Buddhists, but within Indian philosophy more generally. Seen from this perspective, Buddhist idealism remained a current within Indian philosophy long after the demise of Buddhism in India, in about the twelfth century, and endured in some respects at least until the Mughal age, when the last thinker to be examined here, the Jain teacher Yaśovijaya, was active.