Dignaga

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• Commentary on the Examination of the Object of Cognition — Dignaga — Dignāga'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 — Dignaga — Dignāga'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 — Dignaga — A 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 — Dignaga — Dignaga's foundational text on Buddhist logic — the ninefold classification of logical reasons. First English translation from the Tibetan.
• Examination of the Object of Cognition — Dignaga — Dignāga'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 — Dignaga — Dignāga'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 — Dignaga — The 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.