Prasangika

A summary of the main assertions unique to the Gelug tradition, concerning cognition theory, the Indian Buddhist tenet systems, karma, the three times, and many more.

All apprehensions explicitly apprehend one or more involved objects. Not all, however, implicitly apprehend anything.

Gelug Prasangika’s presentation of coarse disturbing emotions, which are based on grasping for a self-sufficiently knowable “me,” and the underlying subtle disturbing emotions, which are based solely on the automatically-arising grasping for self-established existence.

A portrait of the life and deeds of one of the most famous masters of Tibetan Buddhism.

Madhyamaka masters use the five great Madhyamaka lines of reasoning to establish the voidness of self-established true existence.

Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche explains the Gelug Prasangika presentation of appearances being the play of the mind.

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.

Comparing non-Prasangika and Prasangika Indian logic for gaining valid inferential cognition of a conclusion about an object.

Learn why Study Buddhism prefers the term “voidness” over “emptiness.”