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Indian Logic in Early Twentieth-Century China: Ambitions, Adaptations and Abandonments
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Indian Logic in Early Twentieth-Century China: Ambitions, Adaptations and Abandonments


Dr. Lisa Zhang, Tohoku University


서울대학교 6동 403호 철학사상연구소

Bldg. 6 Room 403, SNU Institute of Philosophy

 

2024년 10월 22일 화요일 오후 5:00-7:00

Tuesday October 22nd 2024, 5:00PM-7:00PM


Abstract

While various forms of logic from South Asia had shaped Chinese thought for over 

a millennium through the spread of Buddhism, the Chinese term Yindu luoji (Indian logic)

emerged as a neologism in the late nineteenth century. Previously, what became known

as Yindu luoji had been called yinming, the Chinese Buddhist translation of the Sanskrit 

term hetuvidyāYinming had hitherto been seen primarily as a methodological tool for

argumentation within Yogācāra Buddhism. However, as it evolved into Yindu luoji in

the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it took on new roles, ranging from a

tool for national salvation to a means of modernising Buddhism - while also facing criticism

as a study of limited practical value. My talk discusses the contexts that led to this

(re)invention of Indian logic in China, and the implications of its development for the 

broader history of comparative logic.


About the Speaker

Lisa Zhang is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Tohoku University, researching ideas of 

philosophy, history, and identity in the context of Chinese politics, China-India relations, 

and broader imaginaries of Asia. Her articles and chapters have appeared in the journal 

China and Asia and the edited volumes Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands 

and Redefining Propaganda in Modern China. She is also the co-author of Through 

the India-China Border (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024) . In 2023, Lisa was 

awarded the Runner-Up Young Scholar Award by the European Association of Chinese Philosophy.