Udayana
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Udayana, (Devanagari: उदयन) also known as Udayanācārya (Udyanacharya, or Master Udayana), (circa 975 - 1050 CE) was an Indian philosopher and logician of the tenth century of the Nyaya school who attempted to devise a rational theology to prove the existence of God using logic and counter the attack on the existence of God at the hands of Buddhist philosophers such as Dharmakīrti, Jñānaśrī and against the Indian school of materialism (Chārvaka). He is considered to be the most important philosopher of the Nyāya tradition.
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- Religious biography.image
- Udyanacharya Sanskrit Vidyalaya.jpg
- Religious biography.caption
- Udayanacharya Statue at Udayanacharya Mandir in Kariyan village of Samastipur district in the Mithila region of Bihar
- Religious biography.religion
- Hinduism
- Religious biography.birth_date
- 975 A.D.
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Kariona, Mithila (modern-day Bihar, India)
- Religious biography.death_date
- 1050 A.D.
- Religious biography.main interests
- Nyaya Shastra
- Religious biography.notable ideas
- Existence of God by Logic
- Religious biography.notable works
- Nyayakusumanjali
- Religious biography.occupation
- Philosopher and Teacher
- Religious biography.school_tradition
- Nyaya School of Indian Philosophy
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Pala Empire
- Place of birth
- Mithila
- Place of death
- Pala Empire
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Languages spoken
- Sanskrit
- Religion
- Hinduism
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Life
- Philosophy
- Ontological Categories
- Theory of Knowledge (Pramana)
- Definitional Method (Lakshana)
- Philosophy as a Logical Discipline
- Nyayakusumanjali and the existence of God
- Other works by Udayana
- References
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Udayana, (Devanagari: उदयन) also known as Udayanācārya (Udyanacharya, or Master Udayana), (circa 975 - 1050 CE) was an Indian philosopher and logician of the tenth century of the Nyaya school who attempted to devise a rational theology to prove the existence of God using logic and counter the attack on the existence of God at the hands of Buddhist philosophers such as Dharmakīrti, Jñānaśrī and against the Indian school of materialism (Chārvaka). He is considered to be the most important philosopher of the Nyāya tradition.
He worked to reconcile the views held by the two major schools of logic (Nyaya and Vaisheshika). This became the root of the Navya-Nyāya ("New Nyāya") school of the thirteenth century, established by the Gangesha Upadhyaya school of "right" reasoning, which is still recognized and followed in some regions of India today. He lived in Kariyan village in Mithila, near present-day Darbhanga, Bihar state, India.
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