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Dignaga

Tibetan-preserved works by Dignaga on logic, perception, reasoning, Yogacara, and devotional analysis.

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Texts

Commentary on the Examination of the Object of Cognition — DignagaDignāga's auto-commentary on his seminal epistemological treatise examining whether atoms or aggregates can serve as the true object of perceptual cognition — concluding that the object is internal to consciousness. First English translation from Tibetan.Engaging in Reasoning — DignagaDignāga's foundational treatise on Buddhist formal logic — the Gateway to Reasoning — translated from the Tibetan version of the Degé Tengyur. First free English translation from the Tibetan.Entering into Yoga — DignagaA ten-verse Yogacara meditation manual by the great Buddhist logician Dignaga (c. 480-540 CE), guiding the practitioner from study through contemplation to the dissolution of all duality. First English translation from the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur (D4074).Establishing the Wheel of Reasons — DignagaDignaga's foundational text on Buddhist logic — the ninefold classification of logical reasons. First English translation from the Tibetan.Examination of the Object of Cognition — DignagaDignāga's Examination of the Object of Cognition — eight verses and auto-commentary dismantling external realism and establishing the representationalist theory of perception. First freely available English translation from the Tibetan Tengyur.Examination of the Three Times — DignagaDignāga's Examination of the Three Times — thirty-two stanzas analyzing the nature of past, present, and future, demonstrating that temporal distinctions are conceptual superimpositions upon what is non-dual and without inherent nature. First freely available English translation from the Tibetan Tengyur.Verses on the Meaning of the Praise of Limitless Qualities — DignagaThe Guṇāparyantastotravātukārikā — a structural analysis of Mātṛceṭa's Praise of Limitless Qualities by Dignāga, the founder of Buddhist logic. Ten verses mapping the architecture of devotion. First English translation from Tibetan. Good Works Translation.