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Dharmakirti
Tibetan-preserved works by Dharmakirti on logic, epistemology, relation, and Buddhist praise.
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Texts
A Drop of Logic — DharmakirtiDharmakirti's most concise epistemological treatise — a systematic presentation of valid cognition, direct perception, and inference in three chapters. The standard textbook for Buddhist logic in Tibet for centuries. A new English translation from the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur (D4212).A Drop of Reason — DharmakirtiDharmakīrti's foundational treatise on the nature and definition of the valid logical reason — the companion to A Drop of Logic. A new English translation from Tibetan.Commentary on the Examination of Relations — DharmakirtiDharmakirti's Commentary on the Examination of Relations — the auto-commentary explaining his twenty-five verses on the unreality of relation. A new English translation from the Tibetan Tengyur.Examination of Relations — DharmakirtiDharmakirti's Examination of Relations — twenty-five verses demonstrating that relation cannot be established as ultimately real. A new English translation from the Tibetan Tengyur.Praise of the Buddha's Nirvana — DharmakirtiA devotional lament for the Buddha's passing into nirvāṇa, attributed to Dharmakīrti of Suvarṇadvīpa, newly translated from Tibetan.