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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/dignagas-explanation-of-acandr
 a%e1%b8%a5-sasi-a-survey-of-its-interpretation-in-the-hetuvidya-tradition/
SUMMARY:Dignāga’s Explanation of acandraḥ śaśī – A Survey of Its 
 Interpretation in the hetuvidyā-Tradition
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies\, Harva
 rd University\n\nIn his Nyāyamukha and Pramāṇasamuccaya\, Dignāga (ca
 . 480–540) had a short passage explaining the paradoxicality of the thes
 is acandraḥ śaśī (“the rabbit-possessor [an epithet of the moon] is
  not the moon”). Dharmakīrti (ca. 550–660)\, in his Pramāṇavārtti
 ka and Pramāṇaviniścaya\, offered three interpretations of this passag
 e. Dharmakīrti advocated the first two while criticized the third one\, w
 hich was later ascribed to a Nyāyamukhaṭīkākāra (“author of the co
 mmentary on the Nyāyamukha”).\n\nThe Nyāyamukha was translated into Ch
 inese by Xuanzang 玄奘 (602–664) in 650. Three commentaries on the Ny
 āyamukha by early disciples of Xuanzang had an interpretation of this sho
 rt passage\, which agreed with the Nyāyamukhaṭīkākāra’s interpreta
 tion. Dharmapāla (ca. 530–561)\, in his Da cheng guang bai lun shi lun 
 大乘廣百論釋論\, once discussed a thesis similar to acandraḥ śa
 śī. His interpretation of the thesis shares the same spirit with that of
  the Nyāyamukhaṭīkākāra’s interpretation.\n\nThe Nyāyamukhaṭīk
 ākāra’s interpretation existed\, being accepted at some intermediate s
 tage between Dignāga and Dharmakīrti. The issue at stake when interpreti
 ng Dignāga’s words here discussed concerns questions whether and how fa
 r propositions in the form A is B where A and B are coreferential can be r
 ationally justified
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