Monday, March 7, 2011

Nyaya Philosophy


NYAYA PHILOSOPHY
Goutama = the founder of the school = Nyayakarika
Defi: A definite cognition which is produced by sense-object contact and is unerring.
Perception into :
[1] Ordinary [Loukika] visual-seeing, auditory-hearing, tactual-touching, qustatory-taste, olfactory-smell, mental-processes of mind.
[2] Extra-ordinary: Samanyalaksana, Jnanalaksana, Yogaja
Modes:
1. Nirvikalpa [indeterminate]
2. Savikalpa [determinate]
3. Pratyabhijna [recognition]

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