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From very early times, Buddhist intellectuals have made the notion of a self-existing over and above the bodily and mental
constituentâs one of their main targets. Their critique first culminates in Vasubandhuâs treatise against the Buddhist personalists
(5th century CE).The eighth-century philosophers Santaraksita and Kamalasila provide another milestone in theâŠ
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DharmakÄ«rti is among the most important of the Indian Buddhist philosophers, but he is also one of the most challenging. These two eminent scholars of his tradition bring their expertise to bear in making a central aspect of his thought accessible to non-experts. The Buddhist quest for enlightenment is organized around the task of overcoming the sense of self, the sense of a âmeâ that is the owner of this life. Eltschinger and RatiĂ© clearly and carefully explain how DharmakÄ«rti uses philosophical rationality to help us in the task of dissolving that sense.
From Mark's list on Indian Buddhist philosophy.
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