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Dignāga

480 - 540

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Dignāga (also known as Diṅnāga, c. 470/480 – c. 530/540 CE) was an Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician. He is credited as one of the Buddhist founders of Indian logic (hetu vidyā) and atomism. Dignāga's work laid the groundwork for the development of deductive logic in India and created the first system of Buddhist logic and epistemology (pramāṇa). According to Georges B. Dreyfus, his philosophical school brought about an Indian "epistemological turn" and became the "standard formulation of Buddhist logic and epistemology in India and Tibet." Dignāga's thought influenced later Buddhist philosophers like Dharmakirti and also Hindu thinkers of the Nyaya school. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dignāga is the 619th most popular philosopher (up from 663rd in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from India (down from 231st in 2019) and the 27th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Dignāga ranks 619 out of 1,267Before him are Aeschines of Sphettus, Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi, Berengar of Tours, Friedrich Albert Lange, Pietro d'Abano, and Abraham Isaac Kook. After him are Arthur Danto, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, R. G. Collingwood, Roman Ingarden, Maximus Planudes, and Guarino da Verona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 480, Dignāga ranks 8Before him are Boethius, Pope Felix IV, Gelimer, Scholastica, Theodahad, and Damascius. After him are Eutocius of Ascalon, Mark of Cornwall, and Maelgwn Gwynedd. Among people deceased in 540, Dignāga ranks 3Before him are Bodhidharma, and Wacho. After him are Barsanuphius, Beopheung of Silla, Kaleb of Axum, and Amalaberga.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dignāga ranks 255 out of 1,861Before him are Mangal Pandey (1827), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Śāntarakṣita (725). After him are Dhyan Chand (1905), Priyanka Gandhi (1972), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Dharmendra (1935), Rakhee Gulzar (1947), and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Dignāga ranks 27Before him are Shantideva (685), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), Madhvacharya (1199), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883). After him are Hemachandra (1089), Ravidas (1450), Vallabha (1479), Thiruvalluvar (350), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), and Narayana Guru (1855).