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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'
- Prajnakaragupta, Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra
- Shakyabuddhi, Pramāṇavārttikaṭīkā
Tibetan
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)
- 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
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་གཞན་ཆ་ལས་འཛིན་དང་སྡང་། །
འདི་དག་དང་ནི་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ལས། །
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
དེ་འདིར་དོན་དམ་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། །
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
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