சௌத்திராந்திக பௌத்தம் பற்றிய சிவஞான சித்தியார் நோக்கு: ஒரு விமர்சன ஆய்வு

Abstract

The orthodox Philosophical school that accepts Vedas as a verbel testimony and the heterodox Philosophical school that do not accept Vedas as a verbel testimony have both been included in Indian philosophical tradition. Both philosophical schools have been attempting to establish their arguments as valid for a long time. Both schools have declared grudges, condemnations and refutations related to religions. In these circumstances, Buddhism, the great philosophical school which was conceived as a heterodox religion, its sects and their great thoughts also have been refuted by orthodox scholars. Thus, it is important that the Sivajnana Siddhiyar, which refuted the four sects of Buddhism, paid especial attention to the Sautrantika sect. The Siddhiyar identified that the Sautrantika had attempted to refute the concept of God and Soul based on the empirical world and its contents and elaborated the basic concepts of Sautrantika’s Philosophy in Parapakkam, then refuted them with the evidence and existence of the Empirical world. In this background, Siddhiyar exposes only weak points of the Sautrantika sect of Buddhism while it fails to express reasonable, Ethical, and Philosophical ideas in the Sautrantika sect. Thus, this study has attempted to evaluate the validity of the refutation and the drawback of Siththiyar on Sautrantika’s arguments of their philosophical concepts by using comparative, analytical and critical methods.