Dignaga and Dharmakirti

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ThreeVows
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Dignaga and Dharmakirti

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Any recommendations for specific books/translators/authors/etc for getting to know these two figures and their thought?

Much appreciated.
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Re: Dignaga and Dharmakirti

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One book on the curriculum of many Buddhist Studies courses is Recognizing Reality, Georges Dreyfus
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Re: Dignaga and Dharmakirti

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For Dignaga, the best scholarly work on this atm is:

Richard P. Hayes - Dignaga on the Interpretation of Signs

https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuC ... ns&f=false
It is quite impossible to find the Buddha anywhere other than in one's own mind.
A person who is ignorant of this may seek externally,
but how is it possible to find oneself through seeking anywhere other than in oneself?
Someone who seeks their own nature externally is like a fool who, giving a performance in the middle of a crowd, forgets who he is and then seeks everywhere else to find himself.
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