Study on Pratītyasamutpāda, theory of relativity and causality in Buddhism with reference to canonical literature.

Study on Budhist Pramāṇa-vāda (doctrine of proof: an epistemological study of the nature of knowledge) and Hetu-vidya (science of causes: a system of logic).

Study on Buddhist philosophy and logic of affirming and non-affirming negative.

Study on Pramnānabhūta, Buddhist logic of authoritative.

Collection of speeches extracted from different sources on human morality.

Study and practice of Yantra Yoga accompanied with illustrated patterns.

In his recent book, The Empirical Stance (2002), Bas van Fraassen elaborates on earlier suggestions of a religious view that has striking parallels withhis constructive empiricism. A particularly salient feature consists in the way in which he keeps a critical distance from theoretical formulations both in scienceand religion, thus preferring a mystical approach to religious experience. As an alternative, I suggest a view based on mediation by the word, both in the structureof reality and the encounter between persons. Without falling (...) prey to rationalist illusions, such an approach allows for true human knowledge as embedded intranscendent Wisdom. It implies a more radical break with the Enlightenment ideal of neutral and universal knowledge than van Fraassen’s program, as he stillmaintains a kind of immanent grounding of knowledge in the form of direct, unmediated experience, in spite of his rejection of classical foundationalism. Wecan thus overcome the antithetical ring that characterizes his notion of rationality understood as bridled irrationality and escape relativism without forgetting thelessons that we have learned from the collapse of positivism—lessons to which van Fraassen rightly draws our attention. (shrink)

Critical analysis on essential points of the seven texts of Buddhist logic (Sapta Pramāṇaśāstra).

Collection of author's fragmented works; includes philosophical aspects of Vaibhāṣika, Sautrāntika doctrines, Mādhyamika and followng Tibetan schools.

Introduction -- Otherness in contemporary European cinema -- Potential and limits of a new European in Nicolas Echevarría's Cabeza de vaca -- Migrants in Europe: breaking the boundaries? -- Inspiration from abroad? cultural boundaries in Chicano cinema -- Conclusion.

On the general philosophical concept of Tibetan Buddhism.

Study on general observation on Tibetan Buddhist philosophical concept comparing with western philosophy.

Study on general philosophical concept of Tibetan Buddhism comparing with other faiths.

Analytical study on the fundamentals of philosophy.

Corpus of treatises of Gelukpa doctrines, philosophies, rituals etc.

Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists, in terms of symmetry and invariance. In this book van Fraassen argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. He analyzes and rejects the arguments that there are laws of nature, or that we must believe there are, and argues that we should disregard the idea of law as an adequate clue to science. After exploring what this means for general epistemology, the author develops the empiricist (...) view of science as a construction of models to represent the phenomena. (shrink)

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Prophets, Pre-Islamic; conduct of life; early works to 1800.

() Baul sadhana: introduction The word 'baul, in popular interpretation, is generally equated with singing: with folk song of Bengal or, more concretely, ...

Buddhist canonical treatise on moral ethics.