Author: DHARMAKIRTI. Shcherbatskoi, F.I.
Title: Nyayabindu Buddijskij Uchebnik' logiki : Sochinenie Darmakirti i tolkovanie na nego Nyayabindutika : sochinenie Darmottary. Tibetskij Perevod' Isdal' s' vvedeniem' i prim'sjaniyami. (Bibliotheca Buddhica VII & VIII).
Description: St. Petersburg, 1904-1918. 3 parts in 1 vol. II,(unpag.),IV,222 pp. Rebound in modern half cloth with the original back- and front-covers preserved. * Dharmakirti, (flourished 7th century), Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician. He asserted that inference and direct perception are the only valid kinds of knowledge and that, in the processes of the mind, cognition and the cognized belong to distinct moments. According to him, the object of inference, either analytical or synthetic, is the universal (samanyalak?a?a) and the object of perception-which may be perceived by the five senses, by the mind, by self-consciousness, or by the practice of Yoga-is the pure particular (svalak?a?a). Rare Russian publication in Tibetan script. Scholarship on Buddhism flourished in St. Petersburg during the 19th century. Thus many publications dealing with this topic were published.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Tibet Himalaya Theology Buddhism Etnografie Azië Theologie Boeddhisme