Philosopher
Dharmakirti
Overview
Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 600–670 CE) was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā. He was one of the key scholars of epistemology (pramāṇa) in Buddhist philosophy, and is associated with the Yogācāra and Sautrāntika schools. He was also one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism. His works influenced the scholars of Mīmāṃsā, Nyaya and Shaivism schools of Hindu philosophy as well as scholars of Jainism.
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.
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Philosophers who discussed Dharmakirti
- Udayana
- Dignāga
- Je Tsongkhapa
- Gorampa
- Haribhadra
- Śāntarakṣita
- Dharmapala of Nalanda
- Anekantavada
- Buddhism
- Jñānagarbha
- Jñanasrimitra
- Sakya Pandita
- Ratnakīrti
- Utpaladeva
- Śaṅkaranandana
Ideas Dharmakirti discusses
- Ājīvika
- Buddhist logico-epistemology
- Dignāga
- Hinduism
- Two truths doctrine
- Vedas
- Jainism
- Karma
- Soteriology
- Adi Shankara
- Materialism
- Gelug
- Nalanda mahavihara
- Anattā
- Nominalism
- Mindstream
- Brahmin
- Fyodor Shcherbatskoy
- Śāntarakṣita
- Shaivism
- Dharmapala of Nalanda
- Yogachara
- Problem of other minds
- Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra
Place in the tradition
Part of Atomism.