Nyaya and Buddhist differences on pramāṇa – UGC NET Question

(A) Classical Nyaya accepts four pramāṇas: perception, inference, comparison and verbal testimony;
(B) Many Buddhist logicians reduce verbal testimony to a form of inference rather than treating it as an independent pramāṇa;
(C) Both Nyaya and Buddhist schools agree that only perception is a valid pramāṇa and reject all others;
(D) Differences in ontology, such as Nyaya’s realism and Buddhist momentariness, affect how each tradition explains inference;
(E) UGC NET questions may ask which pramāṇas are common or distinctive between Nyaya and Buddhism;
(F) For UGC NET Paper 1, detailed familiarity with all sub-schools’ debates on pramāṇa is required in the same depth as specialised research;
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