Caste and Buddhist Philosophy Motilal Banarsidass Some of the notes deal

Some of the notes deal with matters familiar enough to the Hindu reader but have been inserted for the use of his English friends

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the law of identity

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Caste and Buddhist Philosophy Motilal Banarsidass Some of the notes dealFrom the sixth to the eighth century CE, the Buddhist Philosopher paid considerable attention to the issue of the caste classes. Far from seeking to reform the non buddhist social environment, they endeavoured to undermine theoretical attempts at naturalizing the social statuses, especially Kumarilas doctrine of the perceptibility of jati. Significant parts of their critique is strongly indebted to earlier, mainly caonical arguments shaped in order to