Dharmakīrti | |
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 Portrait of Dharmakirti in silver, c. 15th–16th century, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. | |
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| Born | c. 600 CE South India |
| Died | c. 670 CE |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Education | Nalanda |
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Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 600–670 CE;[1] Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་; Wylie: chos kyi grags pa), was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā.[2] He was one of the key scholars of epistemology (pramāṇa) in Buddhist philosophy, and is associated with the Yogācāra[3] and Sautrāntika schools. He was also one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism.[4] His works influenced the scholars of Mīmāṃsā, Nyaya and Shaivism schools of Hindu philosophy as well as scholars of Jainism.[5]
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.[6]
- ^ Lopez, Donald (2014). "Dharmakīrti". The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism.
- ^ Tom Tillemans (2011), Dharmakirti, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ^ 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.
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