Materials for the study of Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge (1109-1169)

1. Life and works

• Compilation of the information currently available on Phya pa's life and works and bibliographical resources (Pascale Hugon) (PDF) (Last update: 16.04.2024)
• The metadata for all the bibliographical entries can now be found in the Zotero group library “Phya pa”: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4973554/phya_pa

2. Epistemological works

Yid kyi mun sel

A single manuscript of the Yid kyi mun sel, Phya pa's epistemological summary, is extant. A facsimile was published in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum (bKa’ gdams gsung ʼbum phyogs bsgrigs thengs dang po, Chengdu, 2006: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang), vol. 8, pp. 434-626.

Title: Tshad ma yid kyi mun sel

'Bras spungs catalogue number: 016329

Reference on the cover page: Phyi Zha 11

96 folios

• On the manuscript of the Tshad ma yid kyi mun sel (Pascale Hugon) (PDF) (Last update: 6.9.2017)
• Infosheet from the project "A gateway to early Tibetan scholasticism" (PDF)
• Topical outline (sa bcad) of the Tshad ma yid kyi mun sel (Pascale Hugon) (PDF) (Last update: 03.04.2017)
• Edition of the excursus on the invalidating argument in the proof of momentariness (see below 'Od zer)
• Link to images of the manuscript on the website of the Buddhist Digital Archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), (Volume Number 2077, Work Number W12171) 
• Link to the entry on this work in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum on the website of the Buddhist Digital Archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), (W1PD89051)

rNam nges bsdus don

A single manuscript of the rNam nges bsdus don, Phya pa's synoptic table of Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇaviniścaya, is extant. A facsimile was published in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum (bKa’ gdams gsung ʼbum phyogs bsgrigs thengs dang po, Chengdu, 2006: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang), vol. 8, pp. 3–28.

Title: Tshad ma rnam par nges paʼi bsdus don

13 folios

• Infosheet from the project "A gateway to early Tibetan scholasticism" (PDF)
• Phya pa's synoptic table in table format (Pascale Hugon) (PDF)
• Study of the text in: Pascale Hugon, Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge’s Synoptic Table of the Pramāṇaviniścaya, in: Sanskrit Manuscripts in China. Proceedings of a panel at the 2008 Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies, October 13 to 17, E. Steinkellner, D. Qing, H. Krasser (eds.), Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House, 2009, pp. 47‒88 (PDF)
• Transcription of the text (Pascale Hugon) (Word file)
• Link to the entry on this work in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum on the website of the Buddhist Digital Archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), (W1PD89051)

'Od zer

A single manuscript of the 'Od zer, Phya pa's commentary on Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇaviniścaya, is extant. A facsimile was published in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum (bKa’ gdams gsung ʼbum phyogs bsgrigs thengs dang po, Chengdu, 2006: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang), vol. 8, pp. 35-427.

'Bras spungs catalogue number: 016330

Reference on the cover page: Phyi Zha 11

Title on the cover page (first folio): tshad ma rnam par nges pa'i 'grel pa

Title in the colophon: Tshad ma rnam par nges paʼi ʼgrel bshad yi ge dang rigs paʼi gnad la ʼjug paʼi shes rab kyi ʼod zer

197 folios (64x10.2 cm, 9 lines)

Three chapters:

1. mngon sum (4a9-76b9)

2. rang don rjes dpag (76b9-142a8)

3. gzhan don rjes dpag (142a8-197a3)

• Infosheet from the project "A gateway to early Tibetan scholasticism" (PDF)
• Edition of the excursus on the invalidating argument in the proof of momentariness (Pascale Hugon and Kyeongjin Choi) (PDF) (Last update: 03.05.2022)
• Edition of the excursus on direct proofs (Pascale Hugon) (PDF) (Last update: 07.04.2016)
• Edition of the excursus on arguments by consequence (thal 'gyur) (Pascale Hugon) (PDF) (Last update: 07.04.2016)
• Link to images of the manuscript on the website of the Buddhist Digital Archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), (Volume Number 2076, Work Number W12170)
• Link to the entry on this work in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum on the website of the Buddhist Digital Archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), (W1PD89051)

3. Works on the Two Truths

bDen gnyis rnam bshad

Commentary on Jñānagarbha’s Satyadvayavibhaṅgavṛtti. A facsimile was published in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum (bKa’ gdams gsung ʼbum phyogs bsgrigs thengs dang po, Chengdu, 2006: Si khron dpe skrun tshogs pa si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang), vol. 6, pp. 185-250. This manuscript corresponds to No. 015724 in the 'Bras spungs dkar chag (info sheet). Another manuscript of the work in 27 folios is listed as No. 015538 in the 'Bras spungs dkar chag.

Title in the colophon: dbu ma bden pa gnyis rnam par bshad pa yi ge nyung ngus gzhung gsal bar byed pa

Ascription of authorship in the colophon: rigs par smra ba'i dge slong chos kyi seng ges sbyar pa

• Transcription of the text (Pascale Hugon) (Word document)
• Link to the entry on this work in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum on the website of the Buddhist Digital Archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), (W1PD89051) 

bDen gnyis don bsdus

This is a topical outline of Jñānagarbha’s Satyadvayavibhaṅgavṛtti. The extant witness is part of the same manuscript as the preceding text (folios 34-37, pp. 251-257 in the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum). It is not marked as a separate entry by the editors of the bKaʼ gdams gsung ʼbum. (See the preceding entry). (info sheet)

Title in the colophon: dbu ma bden pa gnyis kyi don bsdus pa

Ascription of authorship in the colophon: rigs par smra ba'i dge slong chos kyi seng ges sbyar pa

• Phya pa's topical outline in table format (Pascale Hugon) (PDF)
• Transcription of the text (Pascale Hugon) (Word document)

4. Publications for download

• Pascale Hugon, Kyeongjin Choi, Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge on the invalidating argument in the proof of momentariness. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2021) 209–244. (DOI 10.2143/JIABS.44.0.3290293). (PDF-Version).
• Pascale Hugon, Universals, Demons’ Pots, and Demons’ Permanent Pots: Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge on unestablished subjects in arguments by consequence, in: B. Kellner, P. McAllister, H. Lasic, and S. McClintock (eds.), Reverberations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy: Proceedings of the Fifth International Dharmakīrti Conference Heidelberg, August 26 to 30, 2014, Vienna, 2020: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 129–153. (PDF-Version).
• Pascale Hugon, Jonathan Stoltz, The Roar of a Tibetan Lion: Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge's Theory of Mind in Philosophical and Historical Perspective. (BKGA 97.) Wien: VÖAW, 2019 (order online or download [open access]).
• Pascale Hugon, Can one be a Mādhyamika, a crypto-Vaibhāṣika, and a faithful interpreter of Dharmakīrti? On Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge’s doxographical divisions and his own philosophical standpoint, Journal of Tibetology 15 (2016)[2018], pp. 51–153 (PDF-Version with kind permission of the editors.).
• --- Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge on Argumentation by Consequence (thal ’gyur) (2): The analysis of the correspondence between a consequence and its reverse form and the thirteenfold typology of consequences, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 39 (2016), pp. 51‒113 (DOI: 10.2143/JIABS.39.0.3200523). (PDF-version).
• --- Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge and His Successors on the Classification of Arguments by Consequence (thal ʾgyur) Based on the Type of the Logical Reason, Journal of Indian Philosophy 44 (2016), pp. 883‒938 (DOI: 10.1007/s10781-015-9285-4). (The final publication is available at link.springer.com and can be viewed freely here).
• --- Proving Emptiness – The Epistemological Background for the ‘Neither One nor Many’ Argument and the Nature of its Probandum in Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge’s Works, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy 1 (2015), pp. 58‒94. (The printed version is available through SUNY Press. The online version is available at pdcnet.org. The accepted manuscript version is provided here with permission of the editor.)
• --- Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge on Argumentation by Consequence (thal ’gyur): The nature, Function, and Form of Consequence Statements, Journal of Indian Philosophy 41.6 (2013), pp. 671‒702 (DOI 10.1007/s10781-013-9205-4). (The final publication is available at link.springer.com and can be viewed freely here. The accepted manuscript version is available here).
• --- Argumentation Theory in the Early Tibetan Epistemological Tradition, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 34.1‒2 (2011), pp. 97‒148. (The final publication can be downloaded here.)
• --- The Origin of the Theory of Definition and its Place in Phya pa Chos kyi seng geʼs Epistemological System, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 32.1‒2 (2009)[2010], pp. 319‒368. (The final publication can be downloaded here.)
• --- Arguments by Parallels in the Epistemological Works of Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge, Argumentation 22.1 (2008), pp. 93‒114. (The final publication is available at link.springer.com and can be viewed freely here).
• --- Interpretations of the Trairūpya in Tibet, Hōrin 11 (2004), pp. 95‒117. (PDF-Version with permission of the editors.)