In Indian philosophy, Kanada was the first to systematically develop a theory of atomism during the 6th century BCE, and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists Dharmakirti and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE.

This dialectical approach of Buddhism, to the elucidation and articulation of an account of the Cosmos as the truth it really is, became known as the Perfection of Wisdom and was later developed by other notable thinkers, such as Dignaga and Dharmakirti ( between 500 and 700 ).

But it was with Dignaga ( c 480-540 CE ), who developed a formal syllogistic, and his successor Dharmakirti that Buddhist logic reached its height.

A notable Srivijayan revered Buddhist scholar is Dharmakirti that taught Buddhist philosophy in Srivijaya and Nalanda, he was the teacher of Atisha.

He produced the Pramāna-samuccaya, and later Dharmakirti wrote the Pramāna-vārttikā, which was a commentary and reworking of the Dignaga text.

In particular, he was not a contemporary of the great Indian Buddhist philosopher, Dharmakirti.

Born around the turn of the 7th century, Dharmakirti was a South Indian Brahmin and became a teacher at the famed Nalanda University, as well as a poet.

Dharmakirti presents most of his ideas in the guise of commentary on Dignaga's works, even if his theories go beyond what was presented by his predecessor.

A notable Srivijayan revered Buddhist scholar is Dharmakirti that taught Buddhist philosophy in Srivijaya and Nalanda, he was the teacher of Atisha.

During the classical era of Buddhist philosophy in India, philosophers such as Dharmakirti argue for a dualism between states of consciousness and Buddhist atoms ( the basic building blocks that make up reality ), according to " the standard interpretation " of Dharmakirti's Buddhist metaphysics.

Buddhist dualism, in Dharmakirti ’ s sense, is different in that it is not a dualism between the mind and brain, but rather between states of consciousness ( nonphysical ) and basic building blocks ( according to the Buddhist atomism of Dharmakirti, Buddhist atoms are also nonphysical: they are unstructured points of energy ).

The texts include his commentaries on the Mulamadhyamakakarika or Fundamental Stanzas on Wisdom by Nagarjuna ; the Introduction to the Middle Way ( Sanskrit: Madhyamakāvatāra ) of Chandrakirti ; the Quintessence of all Courses of Ultimate Wisdom ( Jnanasarasamuccaya ) of Aryadeva ; commentaries on the major works of the Indian Buddhist logicians Dharmakirti and Dignaga ; commentaries on the Five Treatises of Maitreya most notably, the Abhisamayalamkara ; commentaries on several works of Vasubandhu including the Abhidharmakosha.

#* Understanding the Mind – a commentary and detailed explanation of the mind based on the works of the Buddhist scholars Dharmakirti and Dignaga

Like so many Buddhists from 600-1000 CE, Dharmakirti ’ s philosophy involved mereological nihilism, meaning that other than states of consciousness, the only things that exist are momentary quantum particles, much like the particles of quantum physics ( quarks, electrons, etc.

Certain interpretations of some of the medieval Buddhists of India, such as Dharmakirti, may reveal them to be transcendental idealists, since they seemed to hold the position of mereological nihilism but transcendental idealists who held that their minds were distinct from the atoms.

It is identified to be the seat of Dharmakirti, the Budhist-Logician-philosopher. It is a 7th century temple.

Collins ( 2000: p. 240 ) colourfully contextualized Dharmakirti and his experience of disaffection and collegiate misunderstanding at Nalanda :-

Dharmakirti is the last flaming of the torch before it blows out, the owl of Minerva taking wing at dusk: the creativity of synthesis as a fading institutional base goes on the defensive.

In fact, Dharmakirti did end up dominating the leading philosophers of the last generations of Indian Buddhism.

Stcherbatsky relates Dharmakirti to his own understanding of Kant.

He compares Dharmakirti ’ s ‘ point-instant ’ to Kant ’ s thing in itself.

Dharmakirti held the mindstream to be beginningless yet also described the mindstream as a temporal sequence, and that as there are no true beginnings, there are no true endings, hence, the " beginningless time " motif that is frequently used to describe the concept of mindstream, as Dunne ( 2004: p. 1 ) relates:

Dharmakirti held to the doctrine of the mindstream as beginningless and yet also discussed the mindstream as a temporal sequence, and that as there are no true beginnings, there are no true endings, hence, the " beginningless time " motif that is imperative to understand the mindstream, as Dunne ( 2004: p. 1 ) relates:

However, given his familiarity with Dharmakirti, a more likely choice would be sometime after 650.

The Indian Buddhists, such as Dignāga in the 5th century and Dharmakirti in the 7th century, developed a type of atomism that is a philosophy about reality being composed of atomic entities that are momentary flashes of light or energy.

Śāntarakṣita founded the philosophical school known as Yogacara-Svatantrika-Madhyamaka, which united the Madhyamaka tradition of Nagarjuna, the Yogacara tradition of Asanga and the logical and epistemological thought of Dharmakirti.

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