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Śrīgupta (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Śrīgupta was a circa seventh–early eighth century Indian Buddhist philosopher who made notable contributions to the Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical tradition in relation to metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the theory of two truths (satyadvaya). In his best-known work, the Introduction to Reality (Tattvāvatāra, abbreviated TA) and autocommentary (Tattvāvatāravṛtti, abbreviated TAV),[1] Śrīgupta presents the first fully-developed Madhyamaka iteration of the influential “neither-one-nor-many argument” (ekānekaviyogahetu), which, in succeeding centuries, was to become one of the most important arguments for the Madhyamaka central commitment to “emptiness” (śūnyatā), i.e., the universal absence of an intrinsic nature (niḥsvabhāvatā) (§1). In late Buddhist India, the neither-one-nor-many argument occupied a central place in intra-Buddhist debates between Madhyamaka and Yogācāra philosophers concerning the ontological status of the mind and mental content. And in Tibetan M

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