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This term refers to pointing out the logical absurdity in the proponent’s argument. Identifying the contradictory consequences or logical absurdities in the proponent’s argument without putting forward its own proposition, is the main method of disputation utilized by the Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka school when debating against both the inner (Buddhist) and outer (non-Buddhist) realist schools concerning ultimate reality. +
These are the lower three of the four Indian Buddhist philosophical schools, which are characterized by advocating inherent existence ofphenomena at the ultimate level. +
Separate appearance of subjective and objective aspects. +
A proponent of the Madhyamaka view. +
One of the five analyses proving phenomena do not exist at the ultimate level; it shows that phenomena do not arise from a cause; without a cause; both from and without a cause; or neither from nor without a cause. +
This refers both to the view held by certain heretic or non-Buddhist schools that karma and results, varieties ofthe spiritual path, realized persons, enlightenment, etc. do not exist at the relative level, and also to the conceptual thought which conceives that something which previously existed “inherently” has ceased forever. +
This is also known as the Middle Way school. It regards itself as the highest of the four Indian schools, based on the fact that it does not accept phenomena at the ultimate level. +
This is the mode of perceiving engaged in by the conceptual mind in order to produce an image of its object. For example, the concept of tree is arrived at by eliminating non-tree. It is said that what we perceive directly through the conceptual mind is a generic image of an object rather than the specifically characterized object itself. +
Inferential cognition based on reasoning with the three logically established modes. +
Existing in the mind stream, but not developed. This includes the seeds and the dormant latencies. +
Cognition based on deduction or logical reasoning; one of the two valid cognitions. +
One of the two main branches of the Madhyamaka school, which instead of using autonomous syllogisms to establish ultimate reality, principally employs the method ofusing illogicalities in the opponent’s thesis to demonstrate the ‘harmful’ or illogical consequences flowing from it +
Unique philosophical term introduced by Tsongkhapa, who maintains that the extinction of actions is a compounded phenomenon. +
This term is used only in the Mahāyāna teachings. This obscuration is regarded as a barrier to attaining omniscience. +
The state immediately following any direct, transcendent experience of voidness, called "actual realization state." During the actual realization state the perception of the apparent world yields to the perception of its voidness, while in the post-attainment state the preconceived perception of the apparent world returns subtly altered by the preceding experience. +
A feast of offering attended by the host of ḍakiṇīs ([[sic]]) +
Small cakes of barley flour or other similar substances used as offerings +
Reality as it appears to a common individual whose conditioned, distorted perception experiences reality in the form of discrete, independent identities. Synonym: illusory world, superficial reality. +
The lowest, most intense of the hells. +
The eighth consciousness, according to the Mind-Only system developed by Asaṅga in the fifth century. It is the basic substratum of the individual's consciousness that carries the imprintings of "seeds" of past and future experiences. +
