Pramāṇasamuccaya by Dignāga

Cf. Hattori 1968 pp. 12-19. Since the translation of the verses is separately transmitted in the bstan 'gyur, the Pramāṇasamuccaya is bibliographically treated as a work of its own; publications are linked to it that only contain materials on the verse text. But as Hattori 1968 pp. 17f., has shown, the translation of the verses was not produced independently of that of the commentary. Therefore publications on the Pramāṇasamuccayavṛtti likewise have to be considered.
The Pramāṇasamuccaya and its auto-commentary have not yet been edited, translated and studied in full. Only the first chapter on perception has been comprehensively treated by Hattori. To the extent this was possible, we have indicated the text coverage in the individual publications.
Verse numbering follows the individual publications and is therefore not uniform, with the exception of chapter 1, numbered according to the edition of Hattori.

Commentaries

Classical Translations

PARTIAL EDITIONS

  • TIBETAN

    • Kitagawa Hidenori. 1965. “Indo koten ronrigaku no kenkyū: Jinna no taikei [*Studies in Classical Indian logic: Dignāga’s System].” Suzuki Gakujutsu Zaidan.
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FRAGMENTS

  • SANSKRIT

    • Frauwallner, Erich. 1929. “Bemerkungen zu den Fragmenten Dignāgas.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 36: 136–39.
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    • Frauwallner, Erich. 1930. “Dignāgas Ālambanaparīkṣā: Text, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 37: 174–94.
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    • Frauwallner, Erich. 1933. “Zu den Fragmenten buddhistischer Logiker im Nyāyavārttikam.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 40: 281–304.
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    • Katsura, Shoryu. 1975. “New Sanskrit Fragments of the Pramanasamuccaya.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 3: 67–78.
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    • Randle, H. N. 1926. Fragments from Diṅnāga. Prize Publication Fund 9. London: RAS.
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    • Tucci, Giuseppe. 1928. “On the Fragments from Diṅnāga.” Journal of the Royal Asiatc Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 377–90.
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    • Yaita Hideomi. 1991. “Tarkarahasya Kenkyū (III) [*The Study of Tarkarahasya (III)].” In Ihara Shōren Hakase Koki Kinen Ronbushū: Ihara Shōren hakase koki kinenkai [*Essays in Honor of Dr. Shoren Ihara on his Seventieth Birthday: Committee for the Commemoration of Dr. Shoren Ihara’s Seventieth Birthday]. Fukuoka: Kyūshū University.
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PARTIAL RECONSTRUCTIONS

  • RECONSTRUCTED SANSKRIT

    • Harada Wasō. 1991. “Dignāga no bunshō no imi riron: ‘Chishikironshūsei-jichū’ dai V shō dai 46-49 ge narabi ni, ‘Fukuchū’ no wayaku to bongo kanen no kokoromi [*Dignāga’s theory of sentence meaning: A tentative Japanese translation and reconstruction into Sanskrit of Pramāṇasamuccayavṛtti and Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā V 46-49].” Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū [*Studies in Buddhism] 47: 70–92.
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    • Katsura, Shōryū . 2009. “Rediscovering Dignāga through Jinendrabuddhi.” In Sanskrit Manuscripts in China: Proceedings of a Panel at the 2008 Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies October 13 to 17, edited by Helmut Krasser, Qing Duan, and Ernst Steinkellner, 153–66. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House.
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    • Katsura, Shoryu. 2011. “A Report on the Study of Sanskrit Manuscript of the Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā Chapter 3.” Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū [*Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies] 59 (3): 1237–44.
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    • Katsura, Shōryū. 2016. “A Report on the Study of Sanskrit Manuscript of the Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā Chapter 4: Recovering the Example Section of the Nyāyamukha.” Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū [*Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies] 64 (3): 1237–45.
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    • Lasic, Horst. 2020. “Dignāga and His Treatment of Competing Positions in Pramāṇasamuccaya, Chapter Two.” In Sanskrit Manuscripts in China III, edited by Birgit Kellner, Xuezhu Li, and Jowita Kramer, 137–62. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House.
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    • Lasic, Horst. 2020. “Dignāga on the Nyāya Definition of Inference: A Discussion of Selected Passages from the Viewpoint of Reconstructing the Pramāṇasamuccaya.” In Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology in East Asia, edited by Shinya Moriyama, 71–91. Wiener Studien Zur Tibetologie Und Buddhismuskunde 97. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
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    • Ono, Motoi. 2020. “The Importance of the Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā Manuscript for Research on the Buddhist Vāda Tradition.” In Sanskrit Manuscripts in China III, edited by Birgit Kellner, Xuezhu Li, and Jowita Kramer, 289–330. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House.
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    • Steinkellner, Ernst. 2005. Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya, Chapter 1: A Hypothetical Reconstruction of the Sanskrit Text with the Help of the Two Tibetan Translations on the Basis of the Hitherto Known Sanskrit Fragments and the Linguistic Materials Gained from Jinendrabuddhi’s Ṭīkā. http://www.ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Mat/dignaga_PS_1.pdf.
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TRANSLATIONS

  • MODERN CHINESE

    • Cheng Lü. 1928. “Chinese text and modern Chinese translation of Pramāṇasamuccaya.” Nai Xue 4 (4).
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PARTIAL TRANSLATIONS

  • ENGLISH

    • Katsura, Shōryū. 2005. “The Reductio Ad Absurdum Argument in India with Special Reference to Nāgārjuna and Dignāga.” 龍谷大学論集 [*Journal of Ryūkoku University] 466: 2–18.
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    • Randle, H. N. 1926. Fragments from Diṅnāga. Prize Publication Fund 9. London: RAS.
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    • Tillemans, Tom J. F. 2000. Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika: An Annotated Translation of the Fourth Chapter (Parārthānumāna). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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    • Wayman, Alex. 1999. A Millennium of Buddhist Logic. Vol. 1. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
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  • JAPANESE

    • Harada Wasō. 1991. “Dignāga no bunshō no imi riron: ‘Chishikironshūsei-jichū’ dai V shō dai 46-49 ge narabi ni, ‘Fukuchū’ no wayaku to bongo kanen no kokoromi [*Dignāga’s theory of sentence meaning: A tentative Japanese translation and reconstruction into Sanskrit of Pramāṇasamuccayavṛtti and Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā V 46-49].” Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū [*Studies in Buddhism] 47: 70–92.
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DISCUSSIONS

  • ENGLISH

    • Chu, Junjie. 2006. “On Dignāga’s Theory of the Object of Cognition as Presented in PS(V) 1.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 29 (2): 211–53.
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    • Gillon, Brendan S. 2020. “The Emergence of the Canonical Indian Syllogism as Revealed by Early Chinese Buddhist Texts.” In Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology in East Asia, edited by Shinya Moriyama, 53–70. Wiener Studien Zur Tibetologie Und Buddhismuskunde 97. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
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    • Inami, Masahiro. 2020. “Pre-Dharmakīrti Interpretations of Dignāga’s Theory of Pakṣābhāsa.” In Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology in East Asia, edited by Shinya Moriyama, 181–234. Wiener Studien Zur Tibetologie Und Buddhismuskunde 97. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
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    • Kang, Sung Yong. 2012. “The Typology of Jāti-s Indicated by Diṅnāga and Development of Diṅnāga’s Thought.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 40 (6): 615–33.
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    • Kataoka, Kei. 2016. “Horns in Dignāga’s Theory of Apoha.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 44 (5): 867–82.
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    • Kellner, Birgit. 2010. “Self-Awareness (Svasaṃvedana) in Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya and -Vṛtti: A Close Reading.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 38 (3): 203–31.
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    • Lasic, Horst. 2018. “Dignāga on a Famous Sāṅkhya Definition of Inference.” Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Südasiens 56–57: 51–65.
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    • Lasic, Horst. 2020. “Dignāga on the Nyāya Definition of Inference: A Discussion of Selected Passages from the Viewpoint of Reconstructing the Pramāṇasamuccaya.” In Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology in East Asia, edited by Shinya Moriyama, 71–91. Wiener Studien Zur Tibetologie Und Buddhismuskunde 97. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
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    • Lasic, Horst. 2023. “On a Series of Five Ablatives in Pramāṇasamuccaya, Chapter 5.” In To the Heart of Truth: Felicitation Volume for Eli Franco on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday: Part II, edited by Hiroko Matsuoka, Shinya Moriyama, and Tyler Neill, 529–39. Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien.
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    • Moriyama, Shinya. 2018. “On Dharmisvarūpaviparītasādhana*.” Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Südasiens 56–57: 37–49.
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    • Ono, Motoi. 2020. “On Pramāṇabhūta — The Change of Its Meaning from Dignāga to Prajñākaragupta.” In Reverberations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy, edited by Birgit Kellner, Patrick McAllister, Horst Lasic, and Sara McClintock, 343–61. Beiträge Zur Kultur- Und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 104. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
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    • Tillemans, Tom J.F. 1998. “A Note on Pramāṇavārttika, Pramāṇasamuccaya and Nyāyamukha: What is the svadharmin in Buddhist Logic?” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 21 (1): 111–24.
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    • Watanabe, Toshikazu. 2020. “On the Concept of Nyūna in Dignāga’s Theory of Fallacy.” In Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology in East Asia, edited by Shinya Moriyama, 151–79. Wiener Studien Zur Tibetologie Und Buddhismuskunde 97. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
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  • JAPANESE

    • Harada Wasō. 1986. “Dignāga no apoha ron kenkyū nōto 3: ‘Chishikiron shūsei’ daigo shō no Sanskrit danpen wo chūshin ni shite [*A study of the apoha theory of Dignāga 3].” Bukkyōgaku kaihō 12: 21–38.
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    • Kataoka Kei. 2009. “‘Juryōron’ I 9 Kaishakuno Mondaiten: Dignāga to Jinendrabuddhi [*Exegetical Problems of Pramāṇasamuccaya 1.9: Dignāga and Jinendrabuddhi].” Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū [*Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies] 58 (1): 449–55.
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    • Kataoka Kei. 2016. “Tadvat to Apohavat: Genteikankei Wo Meguru Dignāga to Kumārila No Ichi Giron [*Tadvat and Apohavat: Dignāga and Kumārila on Viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyatva].” Minamiajia Kotengaku [*South Asian Classical Studies] 11: 49–74.
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    • Nakasuka, Miyuki. 2019. “Chikaku Wa Zenmenteki Ka: Dignāga to Dharmakīrti [*Does Perception Cognize Its Object Wholly? The Difference between Dignāga and Dharmakīrti].” Tetsugaku 71: 71–86.
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    • Ogawa Hideyo. 2014. “Pāṇini Bunpōgaku ‘kotoba No Ryōikigai Fushiyō No Gensoku’ Ni Tsuite: Dignāga ‘apoha Ron’ No Bunpōgakuhateki Kaishaku [*On Pāṇiniyas’ Sarvasyānyatradṛṣṭatvam Principle: Dignāga’s Apoha Theory from the Pāṇiniyas’ Point of View].” Indo Ronrigaku Kenkyū [*Indian Logic] 7: 53–78.
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