Vādanyāya

Vādanyāya (T. rtsod pa'i rigs pa རྩོད་པའི་རིགས་པ་), or "Reasoning of Debate," is one of the seven treatises on pramāṇa by Dharmakirti.

Commentaries on this work include:

• Vādanyāyaṭīkā Vipañcitārthā (Śāntarakṣita)
• Vādanyāyaṭīkā (Vinītadeva)
• etc.

Translation

• Gokhale, Pradeep P. (1993), Vādanyāya of Dharmakīrti: The Logic of Debate. Critically Edited and Translated with Introduction and Notes, BIB, Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica, 126, Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications 

Further reading

• Chinchore, Mangala R. (1988), Vādanyāya: A Glimpse of Nyāya-Buddhist Controversy, Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, ISBN 8170301254 

• Inami, Masahiro. 2020. “Two Kinds of Causal Capacity: Sāmānyā Śaktiḥ and Pratiniyatā Śaktiḥ.” In Reverberations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy, edited by Birgit Kellner, Patrick McAllister, Horst Lasic, and Sara McClintock, 155–76. Beiträge Zur Kultur- Und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 104. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

• Sasaki, Ryo. 2020. “Dharmakīrti’s Vādanyāya and the History of Conceptions of Debate in Indian Logic.” In Reverberations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy, edited by Birgit Kellner, Patrick McAllister, Horst Lasic, and Sara McClintock, 391–410. Beiträge Zur Kultur- Und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 104. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

• Steinkellner, Ernst. 2020. “Closing a Gap in the Interpretation of Dharmakīrti’s Logic.” In Reverberations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy, edited by Birgit Kellner, Patrick McAllister, Horst Lasic, and Sara McClintock, 429–40. Beiträge Zur Kultur- Und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 104. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

External links

• rtsod pa'i rigs pa, Christian-Steinert Dictionary