Thursday, March 19th, 1981

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MARCH 19, 1981

BUDDHISM; EPISTEMOLOGY

TOPIC: Buddhism

SUBJECT: Epistemology

SUBSUBJECTS: Sautrantika, Perceivers, Dharmakirti, Dignaga, Pure Sensation, Intuition, Knowledge

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• F. Th. Stcherbatsky, Buddhist Logic, Vol. 1

• Herbert V. Guenther, Buddhist Philosophy in Theory and Practice (mentioned in Blue Book)

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Classnotes AB 1981 0319 to 1981 0425.PDF.

• All spelling and capitalization corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1981 03/19 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Buddhism; Epistemology

[Classnotes AB 1981 0319 Begin]

3/19/81

Dharmakirti criticizes Dignaga and says that sense perception ≠ intuition of an object, which comes along with sensation (Buddhist Logic, p. 160, Vol. 1). Dharmakirti is wider and is studied in Tibet. Sense knowledge is not really direct, the intuition of it is.

Sense perception = apprehension of a mere thatness -- the mere facticity of the object -- the whatness following is no longer direct. How then is sensation knowledge (all knowledge is in terms of whatness, not thatness).

The informing of the individual mind (energization) by an object = pure sensation. The object transmits the inherent knowledge that it possesses and the modification of the organ is imbued with that knowledge.

[Classnotes AB 1981 0319 End]