Apropos Of Lindtners Two New Works Of Dharmakirti

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Apropos of Lindtner's two new works of Dharmakirti
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distinct appearance," has been said by the reverend teacher Dharmakīrti too : Insofar as the worldly valid cognitions (laukikapramāna) are examined," when30 (cognition) occurs as divided into the reflection (pratibhasa) 31 of an [objective part which is) grasped and a [subjective part which is] grasping, then even a cognition of indistinct appearance shines as distinctly appearing:33 To wit.: A cognition devoid of conceptual constructions such as name and genus has a distinct appearance; 34 it is (nevertheless]35 differentiated as divided into the awareness of the grasped and the grasping." Therefore the teacher (Digpāga) has also38 shown that ca cognition) when it rests upon conceptual constructions such as name and genus is of indistinct appearance, 39 but not in that it rests upon the division into the awareness of the grasped and the grasping."
The whole passage can thus be accounted for even when we understand it not as a quotation from an unknown work of Dharmakirti, but rather as a paraphrase in general formulations given by śāntarakṣita with regard to a certain tenet of Dharmakīrti and Dignaga. Thus it does not seem necessary to interpret the expression laukikapramānaparikså as the title of a hitherto unknown work by Dharmakīrti.
Abbreviations and recurring literature
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Cone Tattvasiddhi : P 4531 Narthang Peking Pramāņsamuccaya, first chapter. In HATTORI 1968 Pramāņavārtika : Dharmakirti's Pramāņavārttika with a commentary by Manorathanundin. Ed. RÄHULA SĀNKRTYAYANA. Patna 1938-40 [but the verses are counted with Vetter according to the tables in VETTER 1964 : 1165] Pramāņavārtikabhashyam or Vārtikālankāraḥ of Prajñākaragupta (Being a commentary on Dharmakirti's Pimāņavārtikam). Ed. RAHULA, SĀNKRTYĀYANA. Patna 1953. Pramāņaviniscaya, Kapitel I : TILMANN VETTER, Dharmakirti's Pranāņaviniscayah, 1. Kapitel : Pratyakşam. Einleitung, Text der tibetischen Übersetzung, Sanskrit fragmente, deutsche Übersetzung. Wien 1966. Dignāga, On Perception, being the Pratyak sapariccheda of Dignag's pramāṇasamuccaya from the Sanskrit fragments and the Tibetan versions. Translated and annotated by MASAAKI HATTORI. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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