An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy. An annotated translation of the Tarkabhasa of Moksakaragupta, reprint with corrections in the author's hand. Yuichi Kajiyama, Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universitat Wien. Vienna 1998. 173 pp.

This essay begins by distinguishing an argument’s validity from its cogency, and emphasizing the importance for understanding particular philosophers of knowing how they saw both matters (I). It then gives an introduction to the views of Moksākaragupta, an Indian Buddhist philosopher, on both these matters (II-III), and an analysis of his rebuttals of arguments for God’s existence, and his arguments against the possibility of God’s existence (IV). It concludes by showing that these arguments, though taken to be valid byMoksākaragupta, were (...) not intended by him to be persuasive; it suggests, also, that this is a typical feature of such arguments. (shrink)