Logic

The root text, "Nyāyapraveśa", was composed in Sanskrit by the seventh-century logician Śaṅkarasvāmin. Here, Dr. Berzin unravels the terse lines of the text concerning the components of a correct logical proof and the many varieties of incorrect semblances of such a proof.

With a beginningless mental continuum of uncontrollably recurring rebirths, what makes us develop a bodhichitta aim the first time?

An outline of the main points of the relationships with objects in the context of the cognition theory found in the Sautrantika system according to the Gelug presentation.

A seminar on the complicated topic of how to meditate on the voidness of a false “me” experiencing the four noble truths to attain liberation and enlightenment.

The non-Buddhist Nyaya logician Shankarasvamin composed this text as a summary introduction to Dignaga’s system of Buddhist logic.

In “Four Hundred Verse Treatise,” Aryadeva deconstructs the various types of incorrect consideration that we all have, as espoused by the different non-Buddhist Indian schools of philosophy.

Listening to teachings on our precious human life and then thinking about them in order to recognize and appreciate what we have precedes stabilizing and discerning meditation on it.

This profound text discusses how to overcome incorrect consideration of conventional truth and of deepest truth in terms of a vast array of topics.

The Vaisheshika and Nyaya schools share many features in common. Vaisheshika emphasizes the types of entities that exist, while Nyaya emphasizes the types of entities involved in cognizing and proving the existence of those entities.

An analysis of the pervasions among sets of ways of cognizing an object and among sets of forms of physical phenomena.