Gelug

An in-depth examination of the Gelug understanding of the Chittamatra (Mind-Only) assertion of the voidness of forms of physical phenomena, when objects of non-conceptual sensory cognition, deriving from a different natal source than do the consciousness and accompanying...

The Indian Buddhist tenet systems present graded levels of understanding of how things exist like an illusion, which we can use in our daily lives.

The Gelug assertions of the various ways in which tendencies and habits differ.

Cognitions have numerous cognitive objects and the various Indian Buddhist schools of tenets differ in their explanations of them for the various ways of knowing.

The superficial and deepest truths of anything are those phenomena that the valid conceptual and non-conceptual cognitions, scrutinizing superficial truth on the one hand or deepest truth on the other, take as their involved objects and explicitly apprehend.

To know how to cognize voidness, both conceptually and non-conceptually, and thus how to rid ourselves of the true causes of our true sufferings, we need to know the steps that each Indian Buddhist tenet system explains for the meditative process for realizing voidness.

The monastic education system in the Gelug monasteries covers five major topics, based on five great Indian scriptural texts studied through the medium of logic and debate: Prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, Pramana, Abhidharma and Vinaya.

To attain either liberation or enlightenment, we need to cognize correctly and decisively the two truths and the inseparable voidness of both.

Nonexistent phenomena can be objects of cognition, but not objects of valid cognition, only of distorted cognition.

Understanding the difference between affirmation phenomena, which are known simply by affirming the presence or existence of something, and negation phenomena, known by negating the presence or existence of something, enables us to understand nonstaticness and voidness.