Candrakīrti

Candrakīrti (c.570-650)
ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་ zla ba grags pa

Biography

• “Chandrakirti.“ Rigpa Wiki. rigpawiki.org
• Edelglass, William. (2013). Candrakirti. Encyclopedia of Indian Religion, Armand Sharma, ed. Springer. researchgate.net
• Lang, Karen. 2021. “Candrakīrti.“ Oxford Bibliographies Online in Buddhism. oxfordbibliographies.com

Noted Scholars and Scholarship

Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV; Anne MacDonald; David Seyfort Ruegg; Mervyn Sprung

• Kevin Vose. 2009. Resurrecting Candrakīrti: Disputes in the Tibetan Creation of Prāsaṅgika. Wisdom Publications. JABL

Works

Madhyamakāvatāra
Enty to the Middle Way
dbu ma la ‘jug pa
དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་
Tibetan

• Root Text Translation by Thubten Jinpa:
  Candrakīrti and Louis de La Vallée Poussin. 1912. Madhyamakāvatāra. St. Pétersbourg: Impr. de l’Académie impériale des sciences. 

• Huntington, C. W., and Namgyal Wangchen. 1992. The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
• Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa and Jinpa Thupten. 2021. Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Candrakīrti’s “Entering the Middle Way.” Wisdom Publications. JABL

Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya
Auto commentary to Entry to the Middle Way
dbu ma la ‘jug pa’i bshad pa 
དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་བཤད་པ་
Tibetan

• Churinoff, George, Thubten Jampa (trans.) and Candrakīrti. 1994. Supplement to the Middle Way (Madhyamakavatara) & Explanation of the Supplement to the Middle Way (Madhyamakavatara Bhashyam). (read)
• Liland, Fredrik. 2019. Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya: Chandrakirti’s Auto-Commentary to Entering the Middle Way. Bibliotheca Polyglotta. (read) (pdf)

Yuktiṣaṣṭikāvṛtti
Commentary to Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning
rigs pa drug cu pa’i ‘grel pa
རིགས་པ་དྲུག་ཅུ་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་
Tibetan

• Nāgārjuna, Joseph John Loizzo, Robert A. F. Thurman, Columbia University and Tibet House. 2007. Nāgārjuna’s Reason Sixty with Chandrakīrti’s Reason Sixty Commentary. American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, co-published with Columbia University’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US. JABL

Prasannapadā
Commentary to Root Verses of the Middle Way
dbu ma rtsa ba’i ‘grel pa tshig gsal ba
དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཚིག་གསལ་བ་
Tibetan  Sanskrit

• Candrakīrti and Anne MacDonald. 2015. In Clear Words: The Prasannapada, Chapter One: Volume I: Introduction, Manuscript Description, Sanskrit Text Volume II: Prasannapada, Tibetan Text. 1st ed. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. JSTOR
• Candrakīrti and Mervyn Sprung. 1979. Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way: The Essential Chapters from the “Prasannapadā” of Candrakīrti. Routledge & Kegan Paul. JABL (translation of some chapters)
• Jones, Richard H. 2012. Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy after Nāgārjuna. Volume 2, Plain English Translations and Summaries of the Essential Works of Chandrakirti and Shantideva and Two Early Madhyamaka Critiques of God. Jackson Square Books. WorldCat (translation of some chapters)
• Magee, William. 1999. The Nature of Things: Emptiness and Essence in the Geluk World. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications. JABL (translation of commentary on Examination of Essence/Intrinsic Nature (Chapter 15 of  Mūlamadhyamakakārikā)  by Candrakīrti and Tsong-kha-pa)
• Ruegg, David Seyfort, Candrakīrti, and Dar-ma-rin-chen. 2002. Two Prolegomena to Madhyamaka Philosophy: Candrakīrti’s Prasannapadā Madhyamakavṛttiḥ on Madhyamakakārikā I.1 and Tsoṅ Kha Pa Blo Bzaṅ Grags Pa. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität. JABL

Catuḥśatakaṭīkāvṛtti
Commentary to the Four Hundred Verses
bzhi brgya pa’i rgya cher ‘grel pa
བཞི་བརྒྱ་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ་
Tibetan

• Candrakīrti and Karen C Lang. 2003. Four Illusions: Candrakīrti’s Advice for Travelers on the Bodhisattva Path. Oxford University Press.  JABL
  (translation of Chandrakirti’s commentary on Four Hundred verses chapters 1-4)
• D.J. 2013. “Book Review: Refuting the Conditioned – the Saṃskṛtārthapratiṣedha of Candrakīrti’s Catuḥśatakaṭīkā. Introduction Translation and Summary Together with a Critical Edition of the Tibetan Translation.”  Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies 243–44. JSTOR
• Johnson, Dennis. (2012). Refuting the Conditioned -The Saṃskṛtārthapratiṣedha of Candrakīrti’s Catuḥśatakaṭīkā: Introduction, Translation and Summary together with a Critical Edition of the Tibetan Translation. University of Vienna. academic.edu (thesis: translation of Candrakirti’s commentary on chapter 15 of The Four Hundred Verses)
• Tillemans,Tom J. F., Dharmapāla, and Candrakīrti. 1990. Materials for the Study of Āryadeva Dharmapāla and Candrakīrti : The Catuḥśataka of Āryadeva Chapters XII and XIII with the Commentaries of Dharmapāla and Candrakīrti. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien. JABL (translation of Candrakīrtiand Dharmapāla’s commentary on chapters 12 & 13 of The Four Hundred Verses)

Śūnyatāsaptativṛtti
Commentary to Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness
stong nyid bdun cu pa’i ‘grel pa
སྟོང་ཉིད་བདུན་ཅུ་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་
Tibetan text

Triśaraṇasaptati
Seventy Stanzas on Refuge
skyabs ‘gro bdun bcu pa
སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་བདུན་བདུན་བཅུ་པ་

• Candrakīrti and Per K. Sörensen, ed., trans. annot. 1986 Candrakirti Trisaranasaptati: The Septuagint on the Three Refuges. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien. academia.edu