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Mokṣākaragupta (Thar pa’i ‘byung gnas sbas pa, late 11th or early 12th century, evidently)

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  • Dohākoṣapañjikā (Do ha mdzod kyi dka' 'grel). Tôh. no. 2258. Dergé Tanjur, vol. WI, folios 265r.2-283v.1. Tr. by Rgyal ba'i lha and Rgya Lo tsā ba. Peking Tanjur, no. 3103, vol. MI, folios 295v-317v.
  • Dergé colophon: do ha mdzod kyi dka' 'grel slob dpon chen po thar pa' 'byung gnas sbas pas mdzad pa rdzogs so // // rgya gar gyi mkhan po rgyal ba'i lha dang / rgya lo tsā bas bsgyur ba'o.
  • Tarkabhāṣā (Rtog ge'i skad). Tôh. no. 4264. Dergé Tanjur, vol. ZHE, folios 336v.2-369r.1. Tr. by Blo gros brtan pa [Blo brtan III].
    • Dergé colophon: tshul 'di ni gang zag dam pa rnams kyi bka' drin la brten nas nang dang phyi'i gzhung lugs du ma rnams la blo'i snang ba cher rgyas pa sgra bsgyur gyi lo tsā ba dpang dge slong dpal ldan blo gros brtan pas paṇḍi ta la ma ltos par rang nyid kyis bsgyur cing zhus te gtan la phab pa'o // // 'dis 'gro ba dpag tu med pa la phan par gyur cig.
    • H.R. Rangaswami Iyengar, Tarkabhāṣā and Vādasthāna of Mokṣākaragupta and Jitāripāda, The Hindusthan Press (Mysore 1952).
    • Yûichi Kajiyama, An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy: An Annotated Translation of the Tarkabhāṣā of Mokṣākaragupta, Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, vol. 10 (1966), pp. 1-173. PDF available via internet.
    • Yûichi Kajiyama, An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy: An Annotated Translation of the Tarkabhāṣā of Mokṣākaragupta, Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien (Vienna 1998). The same author published a Japanese translation in 1975. This book was reviewed by Christian Wedemeyer in Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 124, no. 2 (April 2004), p. 406.
    • Embar Krishnamacharya, ed., Tarkabhāṣā: A Work on Buddhist Logic by Mokṣākara Gupta, Gaekwad's Oriental Series no. 94 (Baroda 1942), in 114 pp.
    • Nakamura, p. 311.
    • Dutt, Buddhist Monks and Monasteries in India, p. 380, gives colophon to a Sanskrit manuscript, which states that he belonged to the Rāja Jagaddala Monastery.
    • Said to be "the best starting point" for "a basic understanding of the key notions" of Buddhist argumentation. Tom J.F. Tillemans, Introduction: Buddhist Argumentation, Argumentation, vol. 22 (2008), pp. 1-14, at p. 7.
    • Losang Norbu Shastri, ed., Tarkabhāṣā of Ācārya Mokṣākaragupta, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (Sarnath 2004), in 372 pages. Includes editions of the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts.
    • This work dated to the year 1080. Thakur, Jñānaśrīmitra, p. 32.