[Revised entry by Pascale Hugon on March 16, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
The birth of the Tibetan epistemological tradition (Tib. tshad ma) follows the reception in Tibet of a corpus of Indian Buddhist works focusing on the topic of “reliable cognition” (Skt. pramāṇa, Tib. tshad ma), principally works by Dharmakīrti and his commentators (see the entry Dharmakīrti). If Tibetan epistemology developed to a large extent in the framework of a commentarial tradition, this did not prevent it from evolving…