Indian Non-Buddhist Tenets

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What Is Chakrasamvara Practice?
Chakrasamvara (Heruka) is a mother tantra practice of anuttarayoga tantra. It provides the most detail about the methods for generating the four levels of blissful awareness of voidness within the central energy-channel, enabling access to the subtlest level of mind, clear...
in Tantra: Advanced
Details of Ways of Knowing: 14 Number of Valid Ways of Knowing
An overview of the different numbers of valid ways of knowing in Indian tenet systems.
in Ways of Knowing
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools
The Yoga school of Indian philosophy shares the basic assertions of the Samkhya system, such as concerning primal matter, the self and liberation, but adds to the system the supreme god Ishvara, equivalent to Shiva.
in Non-Buddhist Asian Traditions
Basic Tenets of the Nyaya and Vaisheshika Schools
The Vaisheshika and Nyaya schools share many features in common. Vaisheshika emphasizes the types of entities that exist, while Nyaya emphasizes the types of entities involved in cognizing and proving the existence of those entities.
in Non-Buddhist Asian Traditions
A Manual for Engaging in Logic
The non-Buddhist Nyaya logician Shankarasvami composed this text as a summary introduction to Dignaga’s system of Buddhist logic.
in Sutra Texts
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