[Revised entry by Stephen Phillips on June 4, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Gaṅgeśa, the “Great Professor” (mahopādhyāya), lived in the fourteenth century in northeastern India. In Sanskrit, he wrote a philosophic masterpiece called the Jewel solidifying several centuries of advances in epistemology and logic within the classical school of “Logic,” Nyāya, and incorporating much of the ontology, following Udayana (eleventh century), of a sister school, Vaiśeṣika. By all counts, Gaṅgeśa is one of the…

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