Bsdus grwa

bsdus grwa (T. བསྡུས་གྲྭ་). "Collected Topics". A genre of texts on the Buddhist study of logic. Chapa Chokyi Senge (12th century) and others formulated this study as a key for studying Buddhist logic. These texts are studied in all the monastic universities of the Gelug order as a part of their basic curriculum.

Major texts

• Condensed Epistemology Eliminating the Darkness of the Mind (Tshad ma bsdus pa yid kyi mun sel rtsa ’grel)
• Phurchok Düdra (translated in Rogers 2009)

Further reading

• Shunzo Onoda, 'bsDus grwa Literature' in Cabezón and Jackson, ed., Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1996)
• Katherine Manchester Rogers, Tibetan Logic (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2009)