Title: Knowledge and liberation
Subtitle: Tibetan Buddhist epistemology in support of transformative religious experience
First published: 1986
Description: "From its inception, Buddhist philosophy has been concerned with defining and overcoming the limitations and errors of ordinary perception. To do this was essential to Buddhism's central purpose of establishing a path and method for attaining liberation. Conceptual thought, in this view, is capable of leading to a liberating understanding, a transformative religious experience.".

"The author discusses the workings of both direct and conceptual cognition, drawing on a variety of newly translated Tibetan and Indian texts. This book is indispensable for anyone desiring a deeper understanding of the fundamental issues in Buddhist philosophy. It is also highly relevant to issues current in modern Western philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Doctrines, Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism), Buddhist logic, Dge-lugs-pa (Sect), Buddhism, china, tibet autonomous region
People: Dignāga (5th cent), Dharmakīrti (7th cent)
LC classification: BQ4440 .K54 1986