Dharmottara

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
FirstName / namefirst	Dharmottara
MainNamePhon	Dharmottara
MainNameTib	ཆོས་མཆོག་
MainNameWylie	chos mchog
MainNameSkt	Dharmottara
SortName	Dharmottara
bio	Dharmottara. (T . Chos mchog) (fl. eighth century). Indian author of a number of works on pramāṇa, the most important of which are his detailed commentary on Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇaviniścaya and a shorter commentary on his Nyāyabindu. A Contemporary or Student of Prajñākaragupta, Dharmottara was influential in the transmission of pramāņa (T . tshad ma) studies in Tibet. Rngog Blo ldan shes rab's translation of Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇaviniścaya and Nyāyabindu into Tibetan together with Dharmottara's commentaries and his own explanations laid the foundations for the study of pramāṇa in Gsang phu ne'u thog monastery. This importance continued unchallenged until Sa skya Paņḍita's detailed explanation of Dharmakīrti's ideas based on all his seven major works, particularly his Pramāṇavārttika, opened up a competing tradition of explanation. (Source: "Dharmottara." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 254. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
YearBirth	fl. eighth century
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