Hetuvidya

 　Ju Zong ling, A Brief History of the Hetuvidya of Tibetan Buddhism, Nationalities Publishing House, Beijing, December 1994. 173 pp. 20 cm. ISBN 7-105-02375-9.
　　There chapters. I. "The Background of hetuvidya Propagated in Tibet" :The situation and reasons of decline of Hetuvidya in India and the social conditions of Tibet at the time of Hetuvidya's Introduction into Tibet. II. "The Time Divisions of the History of Hetuvidya's Spread in Tibet": The early propagation of Hetuvidya and the later propagation of Hetuvidya, withe the later period subdivided in the rour stages of resurgence, wide spread, research and development. III. "The Characteristics of the hetuvidya of Tibetan Buddhism, " introducing the theory of Dharmakirti, a special way of study, the reorganization of the Hetuvidya system, etc. The second half of the book contains annotations to the Nyayabindu. With a preface by Tudog Dorje.

　　bTsun-pa-ston-gshon, A Commentary on Pramanavarttika, China Tibetology Publishing House, Beijing, December 1993. 496 pp. 26 cm.ISBN 7-80057-085-1. Hardcover. Gems of smowland Culture Seies.
　　Pramanavarttika, a classic of Hetuvidya of Tibetan Buddhism, was written in about the seventh century by the Buddhist Philosopher Dharmakirti of ancient India. It is one of three main components of the seven theories on Hetuvidya. bTsun-pa-ston-gshon was a scholar in the 12th or 13th century, who annotated the original of over 2,oooitems sentence by sentence. Compiled on the basis of a rare handwritten copy.

　　dGe-bshes-ye-shes-dbang-phyug, Anotations on Pramanavarttika, Tibetan People's Publishing House, Lhasa, December 1992. 270 pp. 20 cm. ISBN 7-223-00454-1.
　　A continuation of the book Annotations on Pramanavarttika published by Tibetan people's Publishing House in q989, which was included in the Catalogue of Chinese publications in Tibetan Studies (1949-1991), published by the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1995.

　　vJu-mi-pham-vjam-dbyang-rnam-rgyal-rgya-mtsho, Explanations on Pramanavarttika, China Tibetology Publishing House, Beijing, December 1995. 559 pp. 26 cm. ISBN 7-80057-136-2. Hardcover. Gems of Snowland Culture Series. Collated by Sichuan National Minority Ancient Books Compilation Office.
　　Annotations to the original text of this classic of Tibetan Hetuvidye paragraph by paragraph and chapter by chapter based on the author's own understanding, as well as on works on Hetuvidya of ancient India and some other works by Tibetan Buddhist philosophers led by Sakya Pandita.

　　rNgog-blo-ldan-shes-rab, Annotations to Pramana-viniscaya, China Tibetology Publishing House, Beijing, december 1994.511 pp. Illus. 20cm. ISBN 7-80057-138-6. Hardcover.Pramanaviniscaya is the detailed form of "the Seven Theories on Pratyaksapramana in General, detailed and shortened Forms,: In this book strict logical inference was used by an ancient master translator and Hetuvidya specialist of dgreat attainments to explain various problems in the original text. It is one of the earliest published books on Hetuvidya of Tibetan Buddhism. Complied and published in accrddance with the rare block edition preserved in the nationalities Cultural Palace of beijing.

　　[[rGyal-tshab-rje]. dar-ma-rin-chen, Detailed Annotations to pramanaviniscaya(Vols.I and II), Gansu Nationalities Publishing House, Lanzhou, November 1993. 1, 124 pp. 20 cm. ISBN 7-5421-0129-9. Collated by Jigs-med-thog-mchog and bsam-gtan-shes-rab.
　　A bookk famous for its great length and based on the block edition in Qinhai's Kumbum Monastery, by the successor to Tsongkhapa's throne (1364-1430).

　　rGyal-tshab-rje, [[dar-ma-rin-chen, Annotations to Hetuvidya, Gansu Nationalities Publishing House, Lanzhou, March 1995. 111pp. 19 cm. ISBN 7-5421-0367-9. Edited by the Xiahe County Compilation and Translation Bureau and collated by vJigs-med-thig-mchog.
　　An annotated version to the book The Seven Theories on Hetuvidya in shortened form by Dharmakirti and an elementary textbook for people interested in Hetuvidya. Three chapters: perceptual knowledge of Hetuvidya, the way to correct inference, and persuasion by using the method of inference.

　　Chu-skyes-dge-vdun-bsam-gtan, The Law of Demonstration on Hetuvidya, Gansu Nationalities Publishing House, Lanzhou, March 1995. 241 pp. 19 cm. ISBN 7-5421-0349-0.
　　a monograph on consciousness of tibetan Hetuvidya. With nine chapters mainly discussing the seven-point awareness, with emphasis on direct perception and inferential understanding.

　　dGe-vdun-bsam-gtan, A Course pn Tibetan Hetuvidya, central University for Nationalities Press, Beijing, March 1995. 308 pp. 20 cm. ISBN 7-81001-941-4.
　　Ageneral acdcount of the methodology of Tibetan Hetuvidya in light of modern logic, with the contents divided into three levels: elementary, intermediate and advanced.




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