Bhāviveka
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Bhāviveka was a 6th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka school known for systematizing its logic and engaging in rigorous debate with rival traditions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bhāviveka canonical | 6 |
| Bhavaviveka | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9566195 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bhāviveka Context triple: [Nagarjuna, influenced, Bhāviveka]
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Dharmakirti
Dharmakirti was a 7th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician renowned for his influential works on epistemology and the theory of inference.
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B.
Dignaga
Dignaga was a 5th–6th century Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician whose work laid the foundations of the Buddhist epistemological tradition and profoundly influenced later Indian and Tibetan thought.
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Candrakīrti
Candrakīrti was a 7th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and commentator renowned for his influential expositions of Madhyamaka (Middle Way) thought, especially through works like the Madhyamakāvatāra.
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D.
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher, traditionally regarded as the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahayana Buddhism.
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E.
Kumārajīva
Kumārajīva was a renowned 4th–5th century Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator whose influential Chinese translations of key Mahāyāna texts profoundly shaped East Asian Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bhāviveka Target entity description: Bhāviveka was a 6th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka school known for systematizing its logic and engaging in rigorous debate with rival traditions.
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A.
Dharmakirti
Dharmakirti was a 7th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician renowned for his influential works on epistemology and the theory of inference.
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B.
Dignaga
Dignaga was a 5th–6th century Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician whose work laid the foundations of the Buddhist epistemological tradition and profoundly influenced later Indian and Tibetan thought.
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C.
Candrakīrti
Candrakīrti was a 7th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher and commentator renowned for his influential expositions of Madhyamaka (Middle Way) thought, especially through works like the Madhyamakāvatāra.
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D.
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher, traditionally regarded as the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahayana Buddhism.
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E.
Kumārajīva
Kumārajīva was a renowned 4th–5th century Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator whose influential Chinese translations of key Mahāyāna texts profoundly shaped East Asian Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
6th-century philosopher
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Buddhist monk ⓘ Indian Buddhist philosopher ⓘ Madhyamaka philosopher ⓘ |
| alternativeTransliteration |
Bhavaviveka
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linked to:
Bhāviveka
Bhavya ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Svātantrika–Prāsaṅgika distinction in Madhyamaka ⓘ |
| era | 6th century ⓘ |
| field |
Buddhist studies
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Indian philosophy ⓘ epistemology ⓘ logic ⓘ |
| historicalContext | lived after Nāgārjuna and before Candrakīrti ⓘ |
| influenced |
Candrakīrti
ⓘ
later Tibetan Madhyamaka traditions ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dignāga
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linked to:
Dignaga
Nāgārjuna ⓘ
linked to:
Nagarjuna
Āryadeva ⓘ |
| knownFor |
critiques of rival Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools
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development of a systematic doxography of Indian philosophies ⓘ systematizing Madhyamaka logic ⓘ use of autonomous syllogisms (svatantra-anumāna) ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
Buddhist logic and epistemology
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Madhyamaka emptiness (śūnyatā) ⓘ
linked to:
emptiness (śūnyatā)
polemics against other philosophical schools ⓘ |
| methodology |
organized rival doctrines into a structured hierarchy
ⓘ
used formal inference and syllogisms in debate ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā
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Prajñāpradīpa ⓘ Tarkajvālā ⓘ commentary on Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Madhyamaka ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance |
criticized Mīmāṃsā school
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criticized Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika schools ⓘ
linked to:
Nyaya school
criticized Sāṃkhya philosophy ⓘ criticized Yogācāra (Cittamātra) interpretations ⓘ criticized non-Buddhist theistic views ⓘ defended use of positive syllogistic reasoning within Madhyamaka ⓘ |
| philosophicalSubschool | Svātantrika Madhyamaka ⓘ |
| positionInDebate | advocated svatantra reasoning against purely reductio (prasaṅga) methods ⓘ |
| region |
Indian subcontinent
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linked to:
South Asia
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| religiousTradition | Buddhism ⓘ |
| textualTradition | works preserved mainly in Tibetan translation ⓘ |
| TibetanName | Legs ldan 'byed ⓘ |
| viewOnConventionalTruth | accepted robust use of conventional reasoning and language ⓘ |
| viewOnEmptiness | held that all phenomena are empty of intrinsic nature (svabhāva) ⓘ |
| viewOnUltimateTruth | identified ultimate truth with the realization of emptiness beyond conceptual elaboration ⓘ |
| wroteCommentaryOn | Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ⓘ |
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Referenced by (8)
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