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One of the four great Madhyamika arguments, which investigates the nature of phenomena. All phenomena both inside and outside the mind are devoid of real existence because it can be shown that neither a single, discrete, truly existent thing, nor a plurality of such things, exists. +
See Argument of neither one nor many. +
Innate and conceptual apprehension of an inherently existent I, ego. It is a mere assumption of what does not in fact exist. +
A non-Vedic doctrinal system generally linked with the Nyaya school and laying great emphasis on analysis and reason. +
(b. 1011). A translator and minister of the king Changchub Ö, sent to India in 1037 to invite Atisha Dipamkara to Tibet. +
One of the four conditions systematized by Vasubandhu in his ''Abhidharmakosha'' to explain how causality functions. The other three are the causal condition (''rgyu'i rkyen'') the immediately preceding condition (''de ma thagpa'i rkyen''), and the objective condition (''dmigs pa'i rkyen''). +
An important Indian religious system founded in the sixth century B.C.E.) by Jina (whence Jaina or Jain), also known as Vardhamana. The Jains advocate a very pure ethical system involving, in particular, an extreme form of ''ahimsa'' or nonviolence. They are subdivided in two groups, the naked ones (''gcer bu pa'') and the white-robed ones. +
The perception of an object as separate from the perceiver. Despite the fact that they realize emptiness on attaining the path of seeing, Bodhisattvas traversing the path of meditation continue to experience, when not absorbed in meditative equipoise, the percept and the perceiving mind as two separate entities. This is the residue of dualistic habit and continues until full enlightenment even though, by virtue of their realization, the Bodhisattvas in question have long abandoned any belief in the reality of this appearance. +
Innate and conceptual apprehension of the inherent existence of phenomena, which in fact lack such existence. +
Name of two distinct Hindu tenet systems based on the exegesis of the Vedic texts. +
lit. the ground-of-all, universal ground. According to the Chittamatra school, this is the fundamental level of the mind, in which karmic imprints are stored. +
A technical term in Buddhist logic, used to refer to objects of the conceptual mental consciousness that identifies and names things. It refers to sense objects as apprehended by this consciousness, but also to objects wrongly assumed to exist (e.g., the self). +
A phenomenon belonging to the relative level, brought about by causes and conditions, and which appears to originate, remain, and eventually cease. +
See Kaya. +
(280-360 C.E.). The only Buddhist master to enjoy equal prestige as an exponent of the Hinayana and the Mahayana. During his Sarvastivadin phase he composed the ''Abhidharmakosha-bhasya'', which is the most systematic and complete exposition of the Abhidharma and is one of the summits of Hinayana scholarship. Later in life, through his own inner development and under the influence of his elder brother Asanga, Vasubandhu adopted the Mahayana Yogachara view and composed many works of which the ''Trimsikavijnapti-karika (Thirty Stanzas on the Mind)'' is the most outstanding. +
See Kaya. +
See Affirming negative. +
One of the four systems of Buddhist tenets. Together with the Vaibhashika school, the Sautrantika is considered as belonging to the Hinayana. The Sautrantikas are divided into two subgroups: the Sautrantikas following scripture (''lung gi rjes 'brang'') and the Sautrantikas following reasoning (''rigs kyi rjes 'brang''). The former group is quite close in outlook to the Vaibhashikas; the latter is particularly associated with Dharmakirti and is remarkable for its elaborate epistemology and logic. It is widely studied and utilized in Tibetan Buddhism. +
(flourished in the first half of the eighth century C.E.) A member of Nalanda University and the celebrated author of the ''Bodhicharyavatara'', He upheld the view of the Prasangika Madhyamika in the tradition of Chandrakirti. +
(1348-1412). An important Sakya master from whom Je Tsongkhapa received the Madhyamika teachings. +
