About the Book: Walking Along the Paths of Buddhist Epistemology
The monograph highlights the philosophical arguments offered byBuddhist thinkers
on different aspects of knowledge. Variousaspects of Buddhist epistemology right
from the basic question ofwhat the Buddhists mean by knowledge, the varieties of
knowledgeaccording to their belief and their explanations of the validity
ofknowledge are examined. A painstaking work of Prof. MadhumitaChattopadhyay,
this study deals with different epistemologicaltopics like the nature of
knowledge, validity of knowledge,knowledge of knowledge, perception, erroneous
perception, inferenceand its related issues like ascertainment of vyapti,
antarvyapti,prasanganuman and fallacies of inference. The author has referredto
many primary sources which include different Sanskrit texts aswell as the