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Yamari's
influence
on
Tibetan
Buddhist
Logic
Seiji
Kimura
Yamari was a Buddhist Logician inold Indiawho wrote a lengthy
com-mentary on Prajfiakaragupta'sPrama-n.avtntti)lealai?zha-ra.Even though until now littleattention has beengiven toYamari'sthought,')itstrongly
influen-ced Tibetan Buddhist Logic.Recent Scholarship,however, has begun a
significant reevaluation of Yamari'scontribution. Forexample, E. Stainkell-ner hasargued that`tshad ma skye bu',a very important term forTibetan
Buddhist Logicians,isderivedfrom Yamari'scommentary.2) The Purposeof
thispaper isto investigateother examples.
(I)
The Orderingof Chaptersinthe Pranzan.avndtthaGo ram pa bSod nam seng ge
(1429-1489)
ya ma ris
/
'chad par 'gyur ba 'phags pa'ibden pa bzhipo rnams su ni rjes su dpagpa bstanpa ma rtogs par bdeblagtumi rtogs pa'iphyir/
rjes su dpagpa dang por bshad rigs so
(TNK
p.31/
2,4-5)3) Yamari'chad
par 'gyur
ba 'phags
pa'ibden pa bzhipo rnams su ni rjes su dpag pa
bstanpa ma rtogs par bde blagtu mi rtogs pa'i phyir rjes su dpag pa dang por bshad pa'irigs so
(PAS
191a/
1-2)3)(II)
Pudgalanairatmya and Dharmanairatmya inthe Pptama-n.avtnttthaTsong kha pa Blobzang grags pa
(1357-1419)
tshad ma grub pa'i le'urgang zag gi bdag med tsam. . . chos kyibdag med
dangde'idgagbyarnams ni mngon sum gyile'urgtan laphab pa yinno
(TJ`)
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2) Yamarigang zag gi bdag med pa laltosnas bde bar gshegs pa nyid kyi sgrub byed
ni tshadma grub pa'ile'uyinla
/
chos kyibdag med pa zab mo laltosnas/
mngon sum gyi le'ugnas so(PAS
190a/
2)deyang gang zag gibdag med par bzod pa dangldanpa'idbang du byas nas
le'udang po 'di
nyid du dngossu bshaddo
/
chos kyibdag med pa bzod pa'imkhas pa zab mo'i blocan gyi dbang du byas nas ni mngon sum le'ursna
tshogsgnyis med kyirang bzhindu 'chad par 'gyur ro
(PAS
198a/
6-7)(III)
The low estimate of DevendrabuddhiBu ston rin chen grub
(1290-1364)
pa ndi talhadbang blo la'grel pa rtsom par bskospas lancig brtsamstegzigs
pa phul ba chus bkrus
/
yang brtsamspa mes bsregspas5)(CB
p.852/
3-4)Taranatha
(1575-?)
lha dbang blolartsoms par bskos
!
lancig brtsamstegzigsphul baschusbkrus
/
yang brtsamspa mes bsregs6'(GCB
p. 143/
9-le) YamArilhadbang blo'sgzhung slop dpon gyis lendu mar bshiggo zhes grags nyid do
(PAS
185b/
4) Notes1) Th.Stcherbatsky,BuddhistL(rgicvol.1pp. 44-45,L.W.
J.
van Kuijp,Contn'butionsto theDevelQPment
of
7-VbetanBucidhistEbistemology
1983n. 1032) T. J.F. Tillemans,Rersons
of
Authon'ly 1933p. vi.Ifind an anotherpassage
(PAS
219b/
3)3)
S.
Kimura, "Onthe Order of the Chapterinthe Pramarpavarttika
(1)"
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of
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3)
466-465
4) Preciselyspeaking, thistextisa compilation of notes taken down by
rGyal tshabDar ma rin chen
(1364-1432)
on the occasion of Tsong Kha pa's lectueron BuddhistLogic.
5) E.Obermiller,TZeeHisto7y
of
Buddhisnz in indiaand 71betpp.154-1556) A. Schifner,71f7tznitha'sGeschichte desBuddhismz{sinindienp.187,
Lama Chinpa& A.Chattopadhyaya,7brana-tha's
Mstoiy
of
Budtlhisminindia 1970p.239
Abbreviations
CB Chos 'byung
of Bu ston, CollectedWorks pt.24
GCB rGya gar chos 'byung of Taranatha ed. by A. Schifner
PAS Prama-n.ava-rttika-lamha-vattha- Smparish{ddhaof Yamari, sDe dge ed.
No. 4226
TJ 7lshadma 'i bijed
byang
chen mo of Tsong kha pa,CollectedWorksvol. 22
TNK 7Gytzs
Pa'i
bslan
bcos
tshadma rnamigrel
gyi rnam Par bshadPakuntzabzang