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Commentary on Valid Cognition (Skt. Pramāṇavārttika; Tib. ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་, tsema namdrel, 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:

Inference (Tib. རང་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་, Wyl. rang don rjes su dpag pa)
Valid cognition (Tib. ཚད་མ་གྲུབ་པ་, Wyl. tshad ma grub pa)
Direct perception (Tib. མངོན་སུམ་, Wyl. mngon sum)
Logic (Tib. གཞན་གྱི་དོན་, Wyl. gzhan gyi don)

In the second chapter, Dharmakirti uses logic to prove the validity of the Buddhist path.

Tibetan Text

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

The Treasury of Eloquent Explanations

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

Karmapa Chödrak Gyatso, Establishing Validity: The First Chapter of Karmapa Chodrak Gyatso’s Ocean of Literature on Logic and the Corresponding Chapter from Dharmakirti’s Commentary on Validity

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

སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་འོད་གསལ་ཏེ། །
དྲི་མ་རྣམས་ནི་གློ་བུར་བ། །

The nature of mind is clear light,
Defilements are only adventitious.

Dharmakīrti, Commentary on Valid Cognition, chapter II

བདག་ཡོད་ན་ནི་གཞན་དུ་ཤེས། །

བདག་གཞན་ཆ་ལས་འཛིན་དང་སྡང་། །
འདི་དག་དང་ནི་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ལས། །

ཉེས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར། །

When there is an “I”, there is a perception of other,
And from the ideas of self and other come attachment and aversion,
As a result of getting wrapped up in these,
All possible faults come into being.

Dharmakīrti, Commentary on Valid Cognition, chapter II

དོན་དམ་དོན་བྱེད་ནུས་པ་གང༌། །

དེ་འདིར་དོན་དམ་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། །

གཞན་ནི་ཀུན་རྫོབ་ཡོད་པ་སྟེ། །

That which can ultimately perform a function
Is here said to be ultimately existent.
All else besides has relative existence.

Dharmakīrti, Commentary on Valid Cognition, chapter III, 3

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 [[Image:Dharmakirti.JPG|frame|'''Dharmakīrti''']]
-'''Pramanavarttika''' (Skt. Pramāṇa-vārttika; [[Wyl.]] ''tshad ma rnam ' grel'') — [[Dharmakirti]]'s main treatise on [[pramana]].
+'''Commentary on Valid Cognition''' (Skt. ''Pramāṇavārttika''; Tib. [[ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་]], ''tsema namdrel'', [[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:
-# [[Inference]] (''rang don rjes su dpag pa'')
+# [[Inference]] (Tib. རང་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་, Wyl. ''rang don rjes su dpag pa'')
-# Valid cognition (''tshad ma grub pa'')
+# Valid cognition (Tib. ཚད་མ་གྲུབ་པ་, Wyl. ''tshad ma grub pa'')
-# Sense perception (''mngon sum'')
+# [[Direct perception]] (Tib. [[མངོན་སུམ་]], Wyl. ''mngon sum'')
-# Logic (''gzhan gyi don'')
+# Logic (Tib. གཞན་གྱི་དོན་, Wyl. ''gzhan gyi don'')
+In the second chapter, Dharmakirti uses logic to prove the validity of the Buddhist path.
+==Tibetan Text==
+*{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034674$W23702|ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་, ''tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tshig le'ur byas pa''}}
+*{{SL|7f44c477-ca74-4ea0-ad26-5afa4972b1e3|Sakya Library}}
 ==Commentaries==
+===Indian===
+*Dharmakirti himself wrote a long commentary on the first chapter. It is known as the ''Svopajñaṛtti'', or ''Svavṛtti'' (Wyl. ''rang 'grel'')
+*[[Devendrabuddhi]], ''Pramāṇavārttikapañjikā'
+:{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034682$W23702|ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་,''tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi 'grel pa''}} ff.
+*[[Prajnakaragupta]], ''Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra''
+:{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034690$W23702|ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་རྒྱན་, ''tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi rgyan''}}
+*[[Shakyabuddhi]], ''Pramāṇavārttikaṭīkā''
+:{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034686$W23702|ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་, ''tshad ma rnam 'grel kyi 'grel bshad''}} ff.
 ===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''
+*[[Khedrup Jé]]
-*[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi gzhung gsal bor bshad pa legs bshad snang ba'i gter''
+:{{TBRC|W321|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)
+:{{TBRC|W324|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]]
+:''The Treasury of Eloquent Explanations'' {{TBRC|W22313|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''}}
+*Karmapa [[Chödrak Gyatso]], ''Establishing Validity: The First Chapter of Karmapa Chodrak Gyatso’s Ocean of Literature on Logic and the Corresponding Chapter from Dharmakirti’s Commentary on Validity''
 ==Translations==
-The controversial scholar [[Gendün Chöpel]] apparently translated the text into English, but sadly this work has been lost.
+*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: Indian Masters#Dharmakīrti|Quotations]]==
+{{:Quotations: Dharmakirti, Commentary on Valid Cognition, The nature of the mind is clear light}}
+{{:Quotations: Dharmakirti, Commentary on Valid Cognition, All faults come from the idea of "I"}}
+{{:Quotations: Dharmakirti, Commentary on Valid Cognition, That which performs a function is ultimately existent}}
 ==Further Reading==