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Lāmās developed and continued the Indian tradition 8 Stcherbatsky, in vis famous work the Buddhist Logic, suggests that 'The original Tibetan literature on Logic begins in the XIIth Century A.D., just at the time when Buddhism becomes extinct in Northern India'.9 He further divides the history of Logic in Tibet into two separate periods, the old one, upto the time of Tson-kha-pa (1357 to 1419),10 and the new one, after Tson-kha-pa It is known from the same source that Chaba-choi-kyi-senge (Phyva-pa-chos. kyi-senge) was the first author to compose an independent work on Logic in the land of snow. He had composed a commentary on the Pramanaviniscayah of Dharmakirti and a separate work of his own in enemonic verse with his own explanations. 11
Jayānanda or Jayānanta, a Kashmirian Pandit (Tib.: kha-che'i pa ndi-ta had composed a short gloss of twenty verses on Buddhist Logic in eleventh century A. D. The same text was revised and translated into Tibetan by the author himself alongwith the help of the Tibetan Lo-tsa-ba mdo-sde-'bar(Saps.: Suträntoijvala). This Tibetan name also may be rendered as : Sutrāntadīda. The auther of this work is also credited with the translation of another five works on Buddhist Logic contained in Bstan-'gyur. They are the Bodhicittavivaranah (Tib.: Byan-chub sems-kyi 'grel-pa) of Nāgārjuna (Pek. 5470); the Viśvakarmacaryopadeśaḥ (Tib : Las sna-tshogs-spyod-pa'i man-nag) of Haribhadra (Pek. 5228); the Vigrahayyāvartanikarikānāmaḥ (Tib. : Rtsod pz bziog-pa'i gnen-po dgos-'dod thams-cadbyan-ba) of Nāgārjuna (Pek. 5230); the Vaidalyaprakarana nāmah (Tib. : Shib-mornam-par 'thaq-pa shes-bya-ba'i rab-tu byed-pa) of Nāgārjuna (Pek. 5271) and the Madhyamakāvatāratīka nāmah (Tib. : Dbu-ma-la 'jug-pa'i 'grel-bsad casbya-ba) of the auther himself (Prk 5271).
Besides, a work on Tantra entitled the Yddhajayārņavanāmatantrarāja svarodaya nāmaḥ (Tib. : Gyul-las rnam-par rgyal-po dbyans 'char-ba shes-bya-be) was also translated into Tibetan by Jayānanda with the Tibetan scholar Rmons.pa'i gnen-po dgos-'dod 'byun-ba (Pek. 5813)
The two works composed by Jayānanda Viz,, the Tarkamudgarakārikā (Pek. 5270) and the Madhyamakāvataraţikā (Pek. 5271) are based on the Madhyamika branch of Buddhist philosophy. In this connection the remarks of Satishcandra Vidyabhusana is noteworthy. He opines that 'the Madhyamikakärikā of Nāgārjuna, the Mulamadhyamavrtti of Buddha Palita, the Hastabala by Arya Deva, the MadhyaMahsdayakārikā by Bhavya, the Madhyamapratityasamutpada by Krşņa, the Madhyamikayrttih of Candrakirtti, and the Madhyam kavatäratikā
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