Darshanas and Philosophy
Works on the major schools of Indian philosophy, including Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, Mimamsa, Vedanta, and Shaiva thought.
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Bodha, a research group and think-tank working across issues of Hindu concern, Indian Knowledge Systems, policy, education, cultural experiences, and public thought.
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Browse Bodha blog essays by tags across Hindu culture, Dharma, Indian knowledge systems, temples, festivals, history, and civilizational thought.
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Counterbalanced Reasons
The Nyaya taxonomy of inferential failure has five canonical members. Most of them name ways an offered reason fails to do its work — a reason that appears in cases where the property is absent (*anaikāntika*), a reason that actually entails the opposite (*viruddha*), a reason that has not been established (*asiddha*), a reason whose conclusion has been ruled out by a stronger means (*bādhita*). *Satpratipakṣa* is the odd one out. It does not name a reason that fails; it names a situation in which an offered reason is individually sound, but a contrary reason — equally sound — is in play for the opposite conclusion.
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Hindu Frameworks of Education
Field studies of surviving gurukulas, pathshalas, and vidyalayas that transmit Indian Knowledge Systems today.
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Non-perception as Knowledge
Walk into the kitchen and notice the pot is not on the counter. You know the pot is absent. By what cognitive route? You are not inferring its absence from premises; you are not perceiving its absence in the way you perceive the counter. The Mimamsakas argued that this is a distinct kind of cognition — *anupalabdhi*, the non-perception of what would have been perceived if present — and that it deserves its own status as a *pramāṇa*.
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Open Library | Bodha
A collection of readings in Hindu culture and history, philosophical systems, Indian knowledge systems (IKS), scriptures, and more.
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