Master catalogue of all wiki pages, organised by type.
Texts
- pramanasamuccaya — Dignāga’s foundational Compendium of Valid Cognition
- pramanavartika — Dharmakīrti’s Commentary on Valid Cognition, the primary text in Tibet
- pramanayuktanidhi — Sakya Paṇḍita’s Treasury of Reasoning on Valid Cognition
Scholars
- dignaga — founder of the Buddhist logico-epistemological tradition (c. 480–540 CE)
- dharmakirti — central figure; elaborated Dignāga’s system (c. 600–660 CE)
- dharmottara — Indian commentator; philosophical school (c. 750–810 CE)
- cha-ba — established Tibetan “new epistemology” and debate format (1109–1169)
- sakya-pandita — most important Tibetan pramāṇa scholar; author of the Treasure (1182–1251)
- gorampa — definitive Sa-gya commentator on the Treasure (1429–1489)
- sakya-chok-den — brilliant, controversial Sa-gya thinker (1428–1507)
- ngok-lotsawa — first native Tibetan logician; translator; teacher of Cha-ba (1059–1109)
- shantarakshita — architect of the Yogācāra-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka synthesis (c. 725–783)
- gyel-tsap — most authoritative Ge-luk epistemologist (1364–1432)
- kay-drup — clearest Ge-luk philosophical writer on epistemology (1385–1438)
- berzin — contemporary scholar-practitioner; Gelug epistemology systematised in English (1944–)
Concepts
- valid-cognition — pramāṇa (ཚད་མ་); the central epistemological concept
- perception — pratyakṣa (མངོན་སུམ་); direct nonconceptual cognition
- inference — anumāna (རྗེས་དཔག་); conceptual cognition through reasoning
- specifically-characterised — svalakṣaṇa (རང་མཚན་); the real individual
- generally-characterised — sāmānyalakṣaṇa (སྤྱི་མཚན་); the conceptual construct
- apoha — exclusion/elimination (སེལ་བ་); Buddhist philosophy of language
- momentariness — kṣaṇika (སྐད་ཅིག་མ་); the doctrine of impermanence
- problem-of-universals — sāmānya (སྤྱི་); realism vs. antirealism about general properties
- scriptural-authority — āgama (ལུང་); the status of scripture as a source of knowledge
- self-awareness — svasaṃvedana (རང་རིག་); Dignāga’s foundational principle that all cognition is self-cognising
- mental-activity — sems/citta (སེམས་); “mere clarity and awareness”; the definition of mind
- mental-hologram — rnam-pa (རྣམ་པ་); cognitive appearance; transparent (Gelug) vs. opaque (non-Gelug)
- conceptual-cognition — rtog-bcas (རྟོག་བཅས་); cognition through the medium of a conceptual category
Arguments
- realism-vs-antirealism — the central Sa-gya/Ge-luk debate on universals and ontology
- can-inference-be-valid — the problem of grounding inference in an antirealist ontology
Sources
- dreyfus-recognizing-reality — Dreyfus 1997, Recognizing Reality: Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy and Its Tibetan Interpretations
- westerhoff-dignaga-dharmakirti — Westerhoff 2018, The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy, Ch.4: The School of Diṅnāga and Dharmakīrti
- shantarakshita-madhyamakalankara-intro — Padmakara 2005, Translators’ Introduction to The Adornment of the Middle Way
- katsura-dignaga-lectures — Katsura 2007, Three Lectures on Dignāga (Lecture 1: Dignāga on What Exists and How to Know It)
- sonam-introduction-treasury — Pettican 2026, Introduction to Sakya Pandita’s Treasury of Valid Cognition
- berzin-science-of-mind — Berzin n.d., Science of Mind (9 chapters, studybuddhism.com); Gelug epistemology systematised with Gelug/non-Gelug comparisons
Translations
Pramāṇasamuccaya (Dignāga) — 6 chapters
- chapter-1-perception — Ch.1: མངོན་སུམ་གྱི་ལེའུ། (complete)
- chapter-2-inference-for-oneself — Ch.2: རང་དོན་གྱི་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པའི་ལེའུ། (in progress)
- chapter-3-inference-for-others — Ch.3: གཞན་གྱི་དོན་གྱི་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པའི་ལེའུ། (not started)
- chapter-4-examples — Ch.4: དཔེ་དང་དཔེ་ལྟར་སྣང་བ་བརྟག་པའི་ལེའུ། (not started)
- chapter-5-apoha — Ch.5: གཞན་སེལ་བརྟག་པའི་ལེའུ། (not started)
- chapter-6-defeat-conditions — Ch.6: ལྟག་ཆོད་བརྟག་པའི་ལེའུ། (not started)
Pramāṇavārttika (Dharmakīrti) — 4 chapters
- chapter-1-inference-for-oneself — Ch.1: རང་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-2-pramanasiddhi — Ch.2: ཚད་མ་གྲུབ་བ། (not started)
- chapter-3-perception — Ch.3: མངོན་སུམ། (not started)
- chapter-4-inference-for-others — Ch.4: གཞན་གྱི་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ། (not started)
Pramāṇayuktanidhi (Sakya Paṇḍita) — 11 chapters
- chapter-1-objects — Ch.1: ཡུལ་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-2-cognition — Ch.2: བློ་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-3-universals-and-particulars — Ch.3: སྤྱི་དང་བྱེ་བྲག་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-4-proof-and-exclusion — Ch.4: སྒྲུབ་པ་དང་གཞན་སེལ་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-5-expressed-and-expresser — Ch.5: བརྗོད་བྱ་དང་རྗོད་བྱེད་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-6-logical-connection — Ch.6: འབྲེལ་པ་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-7-contradiction — Ch.7: འགལ་བ་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-8-definitions — Ch.8: མཚན་ཉིད་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-9-perception — Ch.9: མངོན་སུམ་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-10-inference-for-oneself — Ch.10: རང་དོན་རྗེས་དཔག་བརྟག་པ། (not started)
- chapter-11-inference-for-others — Ch.11: གཞན་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་བརྟག་པ། (not started)