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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. First 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. First 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. First freely available 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. First freely available 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, translated from Tibetan for the first time.