Dharmakirti

Dharmakirti ( Skt. Dharmakirti; Chos -kyi grags -pa) was a Buddhist philosopher and logician who lived in India in the 7th century.

The written by him in seven treatises system of logic comprises four sections:

Importance are his studies on circuits with negated premises. He developed a theory of concepts that defines all terms by negations ( apoha ).

Literature (selection )

  • Vittorio A. van Bijlert: Epistemology and spiritual authority. The development of epistemology and logic in the old Nyaya and the Buddhist school of epistemology with an annotated translation of Dharmakirti 's Pramanavarttika II ( Pramanasiddhi ) vv. 1-7. Vienna 1989.
  • George B. Dreyfus Recognizing Reality. New York 1997.
  • John D. Dunne: Foundations of Dharmakīrti 's Philosophy. Boston 2004.
  • Pradeep P. Gokhale (ed.): Vādanyāya of Dharmakīrti. Delhi 1993.
  • Satkari Mookerjee: The Buddhist Philosophy of Universal Flux. Calcutta 1935.
  • Theodore Stcherbatsky: epistemology and logic according to the teaching of the later Buddhists. Munich Neubiberg 1924.
  • Theodore Stcherbatsky: Buddhist logic. New Delhi 1984 (2 vols ) * E. Tilmann Vetter: problems of knowledge in Dharmakirti. VÖAW, Vienna 1964.
  • Tilmann E. Vetter: Dharmakirti 's Pramanaviniscayah Chapter 1 " Pratyaksam ". Publisher VÖAW, Vienna 1966.
  • Tilmann E. Vetter: The Buddha and His teachings in Dharmakirti 's Pramanavarttika. (Wiener studies on Tibetology and Buddhist Studies, Issue 12 ). Vienna 1984.
  • Tilmann E. Vetter: The Buddha and his teachings in Dharmakirti Pramanavarttika. The section on the Buddha and the fours truths in Pramanasiddhi - Chapter 2 revised edition. Vienna 1990.
  • Alex Wayman: A Millennium of Buddhist Logic. Delhi 1999.
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