Prasangika

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

When voidness is cognized conceptually, its superficial truth appears; this is known as denumerable voidness. When voidness is cognized non-conceptually, an absolute absence of truly established existence appears; this is known as non-denumerable voidness.

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.

Even non-Buddhists can have valid apprehension of voidness, but not non-conceptional cognition, and thus cannot achieve a true stopping of suffering.

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

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

Svatantrika and Prasangika are two divisions of the Madhyamaka tenet system, but according to the Gelugpa presentation, Svatantrika asserts self-established (inherent) existence, while Prasangika refutes it.

The Gelug interpretation of the issue of existent phenomena as validly knowable.

There are two major sets of mental obscurations: emotional obscurations and cognitive obscurations.

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