Dharmakīrti on the Cessation of Suffering : A Critical Edition with Translation and Comments of Manorathanandinʼs Vṛtti and Vibhūticandraʼs Glosses on Pramāṇavārttika II. 190-216.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. Introductory Study -- General Introduction -- A Note on the Translation of āryasatya and nirodhasatya -- Chapter 1. Competing Dharmas and Philosophical Traditions -- Dharma and mokṣa as Subjects of Philosophical Debate -- Soteriology and Apologetics -- The Authentication of the Dharma -- The Nobles' Truths in Dharmakīrti's Work -- Chapter 2. Dharmakīrti on the nirodhasatya -- Causation -- The View of a Self -- Chapter 4. The Pramāṇasiddhi Chapter -- Dharmakīrti on the Opening Stanza of Dignāga's Pramāṇasamuccaya -- Structuring the Pramāṇasiddhi Chapter: A Historical Overview -- The nirodhasatya Section in the tāyin Section -- Part 2. Prolegomena to the Edition of the Texts -- Chapter 5. Prolegomena. Scope, Methodology, and Aims of the Present Edition -- Chapter 8. The Sources for the Constitution of the Texts and Their Treatment -- Direct Witnesses -- Manorathanandin's Vṛtti -- Vibhūticandra's Glosses -- The Kārikās of the PV according to Manorathanandin's Vṛtti -- Tibetan Translations as Sources for the Constitution of a Text -- The Reference Sources -- Chapter 9. Description of the Witnesses -- Manuscripts (of the PVV, PV, and PVA) -- Modern Printed Editions (of the PVV, PV, and PVA) -- Chapter 10. Editorial Policy and Conventions -- The Edited Texts -- The Apparatuses -- Reference Sources -- Folio and Line Changes in the Manuscripts -- Variant Readings -- Endnotes to the Sanskrit Texts -- Sigla of the Witnesses -- Abbreviations and Editorial Signs Used in the Apparatuses -- The Translations and the Comments -- Part 3. Edition, Translation, and Comments -- Section 1. Manorathanandin's Vṛtti together with Vibhūticandra's Glosses Sanskrit Text and English Translation -- Endnotes to the Edition of Vibhūticandra's Glosses -- Endnotes to the Translation of the PVV.

Section 2. The PV According to Manorathanandin's Vṛtti, Together with Other Witnesses - Sanskrit Text and English Translation -- Endnotes to the Edition of the PV Kārikās -- Comments -- Comments upon the Kārikās 190-216 of the Pramāṇasiddhi Chapter in the PV, according to Manorathanandin's Vṛtti -- Appendix A. Texts in the Margins of V -- Appendix B. Metrics in the PV -- Appendix C. Synopsis of the Pramāṇasiddhi Chapter according to Manorathanandin's Vṛtti -- Appendix D. Translations of PV II.190-216 in Modern Publications -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index.

Liberation from suffering is an underlying subject in Indian doctrinal and philosophical history. This book is a study of Dharmakīrti's discussion on the topic according to Manorathanandin, the last commentator on the Pramāṇavārttika in the Sanskrit cosmopolis.

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