Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette - Munich Graduate School for Ancient Studies, Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität

This article discusses the function of dialectic in religious history, focusing on the works of two major sixth century Indian intellectuals and doxographers Bhāviveka and Haribhadra Sūri, who belonged to the competing Madhyamaka Buddhist and Jaina traditions respectively. The article studies how these two figures used medical metaphors for their dialectic purposes.

doxography, dialectic, Bhāviveka, Haribhadra Sūri