RE: [Y-Indology] Manimekalai's Aravana Adigal is Naagaarjuna?

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But doesn't Dignaga quote the Manimekalai in his Nyaayapravesha? Another

question, does anyone out there see an awareness of Mahayana in the

Manimekalai?

-j

 

On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:20 PM, vpcnk [sMTP:vpcnk]

wrote:

> Atleast that's what Alan Danielou claims in his translation of the

> Tamil epic. This in my mind is a dubious claim as the teaching of

> Aravana Adigal is very similar to the philosophy of Dignaaga (which

> Danielou himself notes) but definitely not the shunyataa of the

> Maadhyamika.

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> Danielou actually claims that some verses in Manimekhalai (where

> Aravana Adigal teaches Buddhist philosophy to Manimekhalai) are

> infact the exact quotes from Dignaaga's Nyaayapravesha. It can be

> claimed as Danielou does that Dignaaga was only repeating the words

> of an earlier master - but this again has problems as : 1. it cannot

> be Naagaarjuna's as his shunyataa is different from the

> epistemo/logical philosophy of Dignaaga and 2. Dignaaga in Buddhist

> tradition is himself recognized as a great aachaarya having initiated

> a new phase of development in Buddhist philosophy - Svaatantra

> Vijnaanavaada.

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> Also to be noted is that Dignaaga was originally a brahmin from

> Kaanchipuram - a Tamilian. So it is very likely that it was he

> himself who's referred to as Aravana Adigal in the Tamil epic. But if

> we accept this Dignaaga's date will be pushed back to 2nd century CE,

> which goes against Indological dates for him as having existed around

> the 5th century CE.

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