Dharmottara
| Wylie | chos mchog |
|---|---|
| Romanized Sanskrit | Dharmottara |
| English Phonetics | Dharmottara |
| Sort Name | Dharmottara |
| Birth: | fl. eighth century |
|---|
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Biographical Information
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.)
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