Dharmottara (Tibetan: ''chos mchog'') was an 8th-century Buddhist author of several important works on
pramana
''Pramana'' (Sanskrit: प्रमाण, ) literally means " proof" and "means of knowledge".[epistemology
Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics.
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), including commentaries on the writings of
Dharmakirti
Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 6th or 7th century; Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་; Wylie: ''chos kyi grags pa''), was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā.Tom Tillemans (2011)Dharmakirti Stanford ...
. Only one of his works survives in the original
Sanskrit
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, the Nyāyabinduṭīkā, while others survive in Tibetan translation.
Works
*''Apoha-nāma-prakaraṇa'' (''gzhan sel ba zhes bya ba'i rab tu byed pa'')
*''Kṣaṇabhaṅgasiddhi'' (''skad cig ma 'jig pa grub pa'')
*''Nyāyabinduṭīkā'' (''rigs pa'i thigs pa'i rgya cher 'grel pa'')
*''Paralokasiddhi'' (''
'jig rten pha rol grub pa'')
*''Pramāṇaparīkṣā'' (''tshad ma brtag pa'')
*''Pramāṇaviniścayaṭīkā'' (''tshad ma rnam par nges pa'i 'grel bshad'')
See also
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Buddhist logic
Buddhist logico-epistemology is a term used in Western scholarship for '' pramāṇa-vāda'' (doctrine of proof) and ''Hetu-vidya'' (science of causes). Pramāṇa-vāda is an epistemological study of the nature of knowledge; Hetu-vidya is a syst ...
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Epistemology
Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics.
Episte ...
References
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Buddhist writers
Indian scholars of Buddhism
8th-century Indian philosophers
Indian logicians
Buddhist logic
Year of birth uncertain
8th-century Indian mathematicians