Commentary on Valid Cognition

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Dharmakīrti

Commentary on Valid Cognition (Skt. Pramāṇavārttika; Wyl. tshad ma rnam ' grel) — Dharmakirti's main treatise on pramana, the most important of his Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition.

Outline

It has four chapters:

  1. Inference (rang don rjes su dpag pa)
  2. Valid cognition (tshad ma grub pa)
  3. Sense perception (mngon sum)
  4. Logic (gzhan gyi don)

Commentaries

Indian

  • Dharmakirti himself wrote a long commentary on the first chapter. It is known as the Svopajñaṛtti, or Svavṛtti (Wyl. rang 'grel)
  • Devendrabuddhi, Pramāṇavārttikapañjikā (tshad ma rnam 'grel kyi 'grel pa)
  • Prajnakaragupta, Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra (tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi rgyan)
  • Shakyabuddhi, Pramāṇavārttikaṭīkā (tshad ma rnam 'grel kyi 'grel bshad)

Tibetan

  • Khedrup Jé, tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tIk chen rigs pa'i rgya mtsho and tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tIk chung rigs pa'i snye ma
  • Mipham Rinpoche, tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi gzhung gsal bor bshad pa legs bshad snang ba'i gter

Translations

  • The controversial scholar Gendün Chöpel apparently translated the text into English, but sadly this work has been lost.
  • Nagatomi, Masatoshi. A Study of Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika: An English Translation and Annotation of the Pramāṇavārttika Book I, PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1957.

Further Reading

  • John D. Dunne, Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy, Wisdom Publications, 2004
  • Tillemans, Tom J.F.: "Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika. An annotated translation of the fourth chapter (parārthānumāna). Volume 1 (k. 1-148)". Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 675. Band. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna) 2000