Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism"; Chinese: 中觀見; pinyin: Zhōngguān Jìan; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་ ; dbu ma pa), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness...
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Nagarjuna (category Madhyamaka scholars)
250 CE) was an Indian monk and Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. He is widely considered one of the most...
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East Asian Madhyamaka is the Buddhist tradition in East Asia which represents the Indian Madhyamaka (Chung-kuan) system of thought. In Chinese Buddhism...
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Yogachara (redirect from Yogacara Madhyamaka)
most influential traditions of Mahayana Buddhism in India, along with Madhyamaka. The compound Yogācāra literally means "practitioner of yoga", or "one...
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Śūnyatā (category Madhyamaka)
emptiness was further developed by the Abhidharma schools, Nāgārjuna and the Mādhyamaka school, an early Mahāyāna school. Emptiness ("positively" interpreted)...
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Śāntarakṣita (redirect from Yogacara-Madhyamaka synthesis)
the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Śāntarakṣita was a philosopher of the Madhyamaka school who studied at Nalanda monastery under Jñānagarbha, and became...
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Svatantrika–Prasaṅgika distinction (category Madhyamaka)
of conventional truth within the presentation of Madhyamaka. Svātantrika is a category of Madhyamaka viewpoints attributed primarily to the 6th-century...
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movement, and scholastic traditions such as Prajñāpāramitā, Sarvāstivāda, Mādhyamaka, Sautrāntika, Vaibhāṣika, Buddha-nature, Yogācāra, and more. One recurrent...
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Essence (category Madhyamaka)
finite), depending upon the type of existentialist discourse. Within the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism, Candrakirti identifies the self as "an essence...
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Middle Way (category Madhyamaka)
approach became later known as Prasangika Madhyamaka. Bhāviveka was critical of Buddhapalita's approach to Madhyamaka. Inspired by the buddhist logician Dignāga...
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Je Tsongkhapa (category Madhyamaka)
philosophy, logic, hermeneutics and practice. He wrote numerous works on madhyamaka philosophy (such as Ocean of Reasoning, a commentary on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā)...
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Two truths doctrine (category Madhyamaka)
Buddhist schools and traditions. The best known interpretation is from the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, whose founder was the Indian Buddhist monk...
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Verses on Madhyamaka) Gaudapada's Māṇḍukya Kārikā (on the Māṇḍukya Upanishad) Bhavaviveka's Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā (Verses on the Heart of Madhyamaka) Kallata's...
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Laṅkāvatāra), and the Huayan school. The Prajñāpāramitā literature, as well as Madhyamaka thought, have also been influential in the shaping of the apophatic and...
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Rangtong and shentong (redirect from Yogachara-Madhyamaka)
of other") is term for a type of Buddhist view on emptiness (śūnyatā), Madhyamaka, and the two truths in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. It is often contrasted with...
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Mahayana (section Madhyamaka (Centrism))
Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy also promotes unique theories, such as the Madhyamaka theory of emptiness (śūnyatā), the Vijñānavāda ("the doctrine of consciousness"...
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Tathātā (section Madhyamaka)
its suchness." In the Madhyamaka Mahayana tradition, Tathātā is an uncompounded permanent phenomenon, (as is Nirvana – in Madhyamaka, not being products...
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Bhāviveka (category Madhyamaka scholars)
skal ldan, legs ldan), and Bhavya was a sixth-century (c. 500 – c. 570) madhyamaka Buddhist philosopher. Alternative names for this figure also include Bhavyaviveka...
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Ratnākaraśānti (section Yogācāra and Madhyamaka)
treatises on Yogācāra, Madhyamaka, and Pramāṇa. Because his unique philosophy attempts to merge the insights of both Yogācāra and Madhyamaka, Ratnākara referred...
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Anekantavada Syādvāda Buddhist Abhidharma Sarvāstivadā Pudgalavada Sautrāntika Madhyamaka Svatantrika and Prasangika Śūnyatā Yogacara Tibetan Persian Mazdakism...
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Mahāyāna Buddhism, especially in Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka school, and in the Prajñāpāramitā sutras. In Madhyamaka philosophy, emptiness is the view which holds...
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Vaibhāṣika Sautrantika Pudgalavada Prajñaptivāda Lokottaravāda Mahayana Madhyamaka Yogācāra Pramāṇavāda Vajrayana Tiāntāi Huáyán Zen/Chán Dzogchen Themes...
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Buddha-nature (section Madhyamaka school)
equated with the Buddhist philosophical concept of emptiness (śūnyatā, a Mādhyamaka concept); with the storehouse-consciousness (ālāyavijñāna, a Yogācāra...
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Svasaṃvedana (section Madhyamaka school)
Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence, pg. xiii. Curzon press, 1998. Paul Williams. The Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence, pg. xv...
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conventional understanding of being and becoming. The concept is also found in Madhyamaka Buddhism, as the theory of nonorigination. Ajātivāda: "A" means "not"...
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Kumārajīva (category Madhyamaka scholars)
Buddhasvāmin, and finally became an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism, studying the Mādhyamaka doctrine of Nāgārjuna. After mastering the Chinese language, Kumārajīva...
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Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (category Madhyamaka)
the Middle Way'), abbreviated as MMK, is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy. It was composed by the Indian...
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philosophy) Liberalism Libertarianism Libertinism Lwów–Warsaw school Madhyamaka Marburg school Marxist humanism Marxism Marxism–Leninism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism...
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associated with the bodhisattva Manjushri. The analytical texts of the Madhyamaka school of Nagarjuna are generally included under the second turning. The...
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Nondualism (section Madhyamaka)
typically refers to the two truths doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism, especially Madhyamaka. The English term "nondual" was informed by early translations of the...
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