Indian Society for Buddhist Studies

Author(s): Prachya Vidyapeeth
Publisher: Prachya Vidyapeeth

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such as Baul, Bishnupuri Classical, Kirtan, Shyama Sangeet, Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti,Atulprasadi, Dwijendrageeti, Ganasangeet, Adhunik Gaan, Bengali rock etc. The city of Darjeeling, which has a large number of Nepali people, is a centre for Nepali rock too. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the influence of Buddhism in evolution of these Bengali music.
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Nagarjuna's Catuskoti and Modern Logic
Md. Shahidul Islam, Bangladesh
Catuskoți is a tool of analysis used by Nagarjuna for investigating the applicability of various concepts/properties (e.g. causation, emptiness, etc.) to objects. The presence of catuskoți can be traced back to early Buddhist texts with regard to issues such as whether a tathāgata exists after death and whether the world is finite/eternal. Normally to use catuşkoți means to enumerate all the four possibilities (positions) regarding an issue then rejecting all of them (in some cases, Nagarjuna accepts one or more of the positions).
Catuskoti is a very puzzling aspect of Nagarjuna's works. Many western philosophers have tried to understand catuskoti by using the tools and techniques of modern logic. There have been attempts to relate catuskoți to various logical systems such as propositional logic, predicate logic, intuitionistic logic and paraconsistent logic. The goal of my paper is to examine various attempts to apply modern logic to make sense of catuskoti and then to show the great possibility of Wittgenstein's new logic of language-games in this regard.
Matilal (1998) and Westerhoff's (2009) attempted to interpret catuskoți within the framework of classical logic. Mohanta (2010) and Priest (2010) are examples of application of non-classical logic to catuskoți. A logical system (classical or non-classical) is basically an artificial language. It has its basic symbols and has rules to combine them to make larger strings