Buddhist critiques of divine creation in the Yogācārabhūmi and the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya.
In this article I discuss two early but highly influential sources in the long history of Buddhist-Hindu debates on theism and creation: the Yogācārabhūmi and the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya. The paper is structured around the Yogācārabhūmi's argumentation, often overlooked in scholarship, which attacks th...
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