The Arithmetic of Renunciation: Reconciling Buddhist Logico-Semantics with the Nyāya-Sūtra

While medieval debate halls often framed Buddhism as a heterodox rival to Hindu philosophy, recent manuscript discoveries suggest deeper structural convergences in 9th-century Kashmir. We analyze three specific dialectical cases where Jain epistemologists actively borrowed Buddhist logical forms to challenge Nyāya concepts of substance, revealing a fluid inter-religious intellectual ecosystem previously dismissed as mere polemic.

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