Dharmakirti

Dharmakirti
Portrait of Dharmakirti in silver, c. 15th–16th century, at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Personal
ReligionBuddhism
Flourished6th or 7th century
Notable work(s)Pramanavarttika

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.[1] He was one of the key scholars of epistemology (pramāṇa) in Buddhist philosophy, and is associated with the Yogācāra[2] and Sautrāntika schools. He was also one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism.[3] His works influenced the scholars of Mīmāṃsā, Nyaya and Shaivism schools of Hindu philosophy as well as scholars of Jainism.[4]

Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika, his largest and most important work, was very influential in India and Tibet as a central text on pramana ('valid knowledge instruments') and was widely commented on by various Indian and Tibetan scholars. His texts remain part of studies in the monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism.[5]

  1. ^ Tom Tillemans (2011), Dharmakirti, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. ^ Donald S. Lopez Jr. (2009). Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed. University of Chicago Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-226-49324-4.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Nakamura301 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Eltschinger 2010.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference liberman2007p52 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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