Knowledge and Ending of Theorizing (A Study in Yuktiṣaṣṭika)
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2021-03
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Philosophical Papers Journal of Department of Philosophy
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Padhi, Laxmikanta
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University of North Bengal
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Bora, S. (2021). Knowledge and Ending of Theorizing (A Study in Yuktiṣaṣṭika). Philosophical Papers Journal of Department of Philosophy, XVII, 130–139. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4079
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Bora, Shakuntala
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Nāgārjuna says that liberation is attained not with the help of being or nonbeing
but by knowledge of being and non-being. We have Nāgārjuna saying: ‘One is
not liberated by being (bhāva), one does not [transcend] the being1 (bhāva) by nonbeing
(abhāva), [but] by thorough knowledge of being and non-being
(bhā vā bhāvaparijn͂ ānāt) the magnanimous (mahātma) are liberated.’2 For Nāgārjuna
this state is the very transcendence of being and non-being by understanding: ‘Those
whose intelligence (buddhi) has transcended being and non-being and is unsupported
have discovered the profound and inobjective meaning of ‘condition’.’3...
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XVII
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130 - 139