The Buddha and Wittgenstein: A brief philosophical exegesis

An attempt is made to analyse the key notions in the Buddha's Dhamma— ’truth’, ‘knowledge’, ‘emancipation‘—by way of the philosophical techniques of the later Wittgenstein. The analysis hence is both comparative and noncomparative. It is comparative because two thought processes from two different traditions are brought together. And it is noncomparative since it brings into focus a philosophical exegesis as against a comparative exposition. In the process not only are philosophical errors in comparative exposition made explicit in our thesis but it also offers a genuine basis for modern Buddhist philosophy.