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Written by [[Dharmakīrti]] as a detail commentary on the works of [[Dignāga]], they became the fundamental works (''mūla'') to be studied on logic.
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The '''Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition''' (Skt. ''Pramanavartikadisapta-grantha-samgraha''; Tib. ཚད་མ་སྡེ་བདུན་, ''tsema dé dün'', [[Wyl.]] ''tshad ma sde bdun'') were written by [[Dharmakirti]] as commentaries on the works of [[Dignaga]].
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# '''[[Commentary on Valid Cognition]]''' (Skt. ''Pramāṇavārttika''; Tib. ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་, Wyl. ''tshad ma rnam 'grel'')
# '''[[Ascertainment of Valid Cognition]]''' (Skt. ''Pramāṇaviniścaya''; Tib. ཚད་མ་རྣམ་ངེས་, Wyl. ''tshad ma rnam nges'')
# '''[[Drops of Reasoning]]''' (Skt. ''Nyāyabindu''; Tib. རིགས་ཐིགས་, Wyl. ''rigs thigs'')
# '''Drops of Logic''' (Skt. ''Hetubindu''; Tib. གཏན་ཚིགས་ཐིགས་པ་, Wyl. ''gtan tshigs thigs pa'')
# '''Inquiry into Relations''' (Skt. ''Saṃbandhaparīkṣā''; Tib. འབྲེལ་བ་བརྟག་པ་, Wyl. ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>brel ba brtag pa'')
# '''Reasoning of Debate''' (Skt. ''Vādanyāya''; Tib. རྩོད་པའི་རིགས་པ་, Wyl. ''rtsod pa'i rigs pa'')  
# '''Proof of Other Minds''' (Skt. ''Saṃtānāntarasiddhi''; Tib. རྒྱུད་གཞན་གྲུབ་པ་, Wyl. ''rgyud gzhan grub pa'')


==Further Reading==
*''Freedom through Correct Knowing: On Khedrup Jé’s Interpretation of Dharmakīrti'', edited by Geshe Tenzin Namdak and Ven. Tenzin Legtsok (Wisdom Publications, 2022)
*John D. Dunne, ''Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy'', Wisdom Publications, 2004, p.7 n.12
*TH. Stcherbatsky, ''Buddhist Logic Volume 1'',  p37


The principle text, containing the 'body' of the system is the
* Pramāṇa-vārtika - consisting of four chapters on
# Inference
# Valid cognition
# Sense perception
# Logic


 
[[Category:Texts]]
The remaining texts, considered the 'six feet' of this text, are:
[[Category:Pramana]]
* The two abridgments of the Pramāṇa-vārtika called:
[[Category:Enumerations]]
# Pramāṇa-vinišcaya
[[Category:07-Seven]]
# Nyāya-bindu
These both contain three chapters dealing with: sense perception, inference, and logic.
 
Then:
* Hetubindu - a short classification of logical reasons
* Sambandha-parīkṣā - an examination of the problem of relations
* Codanā-prakaraṇa - a treatise on debate
* Santānāntara-siddhi - a treatise on the reality of other minds, directed against the position of Solopsism (the theory that only the self exists).
 
All these works, aside from the Nyāya-bindu, are lost in the original Sanskrit but remain as translated works then the Tibetan Tengyur (bstan 'gyur).
 
Source: Buddhist Logic Volume 1 - TH. Stcherbatsky: p37

Latest revision as of 14:13, 26 July 2022

Dharmakīrti

The Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition (Skt. Pramanavartikadisapta-grantha-samgraha; Tib. ཚད་མ་སྡེ་བདུན་, tsema dé dün, Wyl. tshad ma sde bdun) were written by Dharmakirti as commentaries on the works of Dignaga.

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  1. Commentary on Valid Cognition (Skt. Pramāṇavārttika; Tib. ཚད་མ་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་, Wyl. tshad ma rnam 'grel)
  2. Ascertainment of Valid Cognition (Skt. Pramāṇaviniścaya; Tib. ཚད་མ་རྣམ་ངེས་, Wyl. tshad ma rnam nges)
  3. Drops of Reasoning (Skt. Nyāyabindu; Tib. རིགས་ཐིགས་, Wyl. rigs thigs)
  4. Drops of Logic (Skt. Hetubindu; Tib. གཏན་ཚིགས་ཐིགས་པ་, Wyl. gtan tshigs thigs pa)
  5. Inquiry into Relations (Skt. Saṃbandhaparīkṣā; Tib. འབྲེལ་བ་བརྟག་པ་, Wyl. 'brel ba brtag pa)
  6. Reasoning of Debate (Skt. Vādanyāya; Tib. རྩོད་པའི་རིགས་པ་, Wyl. rtsod pa'i rigs pa)
  7. Proof of Other Minds (Skt. Saṃtānāntarasiddhi; Tib. རྒྱུད་གཞན་གྲུབ་པ་, Wyl. rgyud gzhan grub pa)

Further Reading

  • Freedom through Correct Knowing: On Khedrup Jé’s Interpretation of Dharmakīrti, edited by Geshe Tenzin Namdak and Ven. Tenzin Legtsok (Wisdom Publications, 2022)
  • John D. Dunne, Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy, Wisdom Publications, 2004, p.7 n.12
  • TH. Stcherbatsky, Buddhist Logic Volume 1, p37
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