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[[Image:Dharmakirti.JPG|frame|'''Dharmakīrti''']]
[[Image:Dharmakirti.JPG|frame|'''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]].
'''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==
==Outline==
It has four chapters:
It has four chapters:
# [[Inference]] (Tib. རང་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་, ''rang don rjes su dpag pa'')
# [[Inference]] (Tib. རང་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་, Wyl. ''rang don rjes su dpag pa'')
# Valid cognition (Tib. ཚད་མ་གྲུབ་པ་, ''tshad ma grub pa'')
# Valid cognition (Tib. ཚད་མ་གྲུབ་པ་, Wyl. ''tshad ma grub pa'')
# [[Direct perception]] (Tib. མངོན་སུམ, ''mngon sum'')
# [[Direct perception]] (Tib. [[མངོན་སུམ་]], Wyl. ''mngon sum'')
# Logic (Tib. གཞན་གྱི་དན་, ''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==
==Tibetan Text==
*{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034674$W23702|ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་, ''tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tshig le'ur byas pa''}}
*{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034674$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==
==Commentaries==
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:{{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]]
*[[Mipham Rinpoche]]
:{{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''}}
:''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==
==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.
*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==
==Further Reading==

Latest revision as of 13:21, 14 March 2022

Dharmakīrti

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:

  1. Inference (Tib. རང་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་, Wyl. rang don rjes su dpag pa)
  2. Valid cognition (Tib. ཚད་མ་གྲུབ་པ་, Wyl. tshad ma grub pa)
  3. Direct perception (Tib. མངོན་སུམ་, Wyl. mngon sum)
  4. 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.
ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་རྒྱན་, tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi rgyan
ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་, tshad ma rnam 'grel kyi 'grel bshad ff.

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)
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


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