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Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Richard H. Robinson
Richard H. Robinson
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University of Wisconsin
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , February 1969 , pp. 380 - 390
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969

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17 cf. Yüan-k'ang, , PEW VIII, 3 & 4, p. 114Google Scholar, and Robinson, Richard H., Early Mädhyamīka in India and China, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967), p. 135–136Google Scholar. Jayatilleke gives an example with “east” and “west,” but adduces no canonical or extracanonical instance.

18 Jayatilleke, book, p. 278. See Majjhima II. 197.

19 Saṃyutta IV, 400–401. cf. Étienne Lamotte, Traité de la grande vertu de Sagosse, (Louvain: Bureau du Mugéon, 1944). Vol. I, p. 32, n. 3.

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24 Mahāvagga I. S. 1–13.