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    Dhamma-anusīlana: investigating the Buddhist traditions (edited book)
    with Bimlendra Kumar
    DK Printworld. 2021.
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    Existence of self and adhy?sa in Advaita
    Journal of Indian Philosophy 16 (3): 201-215. 1988.
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    Existence of self and adhyāsa in advaita
    Journal of Indian Philosophy 16 (3): 201-215. 1988.
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    An Indian solution to 'incompleteness'
    AI and Society 24 (4): 351-364. 2009.
    Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness theorem is well known in Mathematics/Logic/Philosophy circles. Gödel was able to find a way for any given P (UTM), (read as, “P of UTM” for “Program of Universal Truth Machine”), actually to write down a complicated polynomial that has a solution iff (=if and only if), G is true, where G stands for a Gödel-sentence. So, if G’s truth is a necessary condition for the truth of a given polynomial, then P (UTM) has to answer first that G is true in order to secure the trut…Read more
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    Is Synthesis of World Religions Possible?
    with Henrique Antonio D’Souza
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 33 (3): 341-362. 2016.
    IntroductionAll major religions appear to follow a pattern of social contract with an additional feature of ‘termination of the contract’ and its ‘aftermath’, for the soul. This way, religion is known as ‘dissolution mechanism’. It contains both social and metaphysical terms, where the former is subsidiary to the latter. The metaphysical term is represented by the mokṣa. A given DM not only explicates the state of soul after the termination of contract, but also it endeavours to point out the na…Read more
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    Lokanīti: Method of Adaption and New Vocabulary
    Buddhist Studies Review 34 (1): 85-114. 2017.
    In this paper I have made an attempt to discuss the adaptation method and new vocabulary employed and introduced by the Lokan?ti. This text was composed in Burma most probably by Catru?gabala around the fourteenth century CE. In premodern Burma Ln was used in monasteries to inculcate guidance on worldly affairs and everyday morality to the Burmese householders in general and to the Buddhist monks in particular.