Xiaonan Li

The gate to speech: Smṛtijñānakīrti’s Smra ba’i sgo mtshon cha lta bu /* Vacanamukhāyudhopama and his use of the Abhidharma philosophy of language

Abstract In the early eleventh century, the peripatetic Indian scholar Smṛtijñānakīrti – Dran pa ye shes grags pa in Tibetan – overcame great hardship and many obstacles before ultimately arriving in the central Tibetan region after which he moved on to the Khams area of western...