Commentary on Valid Cognition

Dharmakīrti

Commentary on Valid Cognition (Skt. Pramāṇavārttika; Tib. ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་, 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 (Tib. རང་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་, rang don rjes su dpag pa)
2. Valid cognition (Tib. ཚད་མ་གྲུབ་པ་, tshad ma grub pa)
3. Direct perception (Tib. མངོན་སུམ་, mngon sum)
4. Logic (Tib. གཞན་གྱི་དོན་, gzhan gyi don)

Tibetan Text

• ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་, tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tshig le'ur byas pa

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'

ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་,tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi 'grel pa ff.

• Prajnakaragupta, Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra

ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་རྒྱན་, tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi rgyan

• Shakyabuddhi, Pramāṇavārttikaṭīkā

ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་, tshad ma rnam 'grel kyi 'grel bshad ff.

Tibetan

• Khedrup Jé

ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་ཏཱིཀ་ཆེན་རིགས་པའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ, tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tIk chen rigs pa'i rgya mtsho (no scan)

ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་ཏཱིཀ་ཆུང་རིགས་པའི་སྙེ་མ་, tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tIk chung rigs pa'i snye ma (no scan)

• Mipham Rinpoche

ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་གཞུང་གསལ་བོར་བཤད་པ་ལེགས་བཤད་སྣང་བའི་གཏེར་, 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.

Quotations

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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

Source

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