Sautrantika

Refutation of Nonrevealing Forms as Being Responsible for an Increase in Positive Karmic Potential from Offering Material Items to the Monastic Community  Vasubandhu states in his Autocommentary to “A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge” (Skt. Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣyā,...

Ordering Someone to Commit a Harmful Action Brings about an Increase in Negative Karmic Potential for Both the Agent of the Action and the One Who Ordered It  As for ordering others to commit harmful actions of body or speech, such as taking a life or lying, Vasubandhu,...

The non-Buddhist Nyaya logician Shankarasvami composed this text as a summary introduction to Dignaga’s system of Buddhist logic.

The root text, "Nyāyapraveśa", was composed in Sanskrit by the seventh-century logician Śaṅkarasvāmin. Here, Dr. Berzin unravels the terse lines of the text concerning the components of a correct logical proof and the many varieties of incorrect semblances of such a proof.

The Sautrantika explanation of karma arose as a critique of the Sarvastivada abhidharma presentation that was later codified as the Vaibhashika view.

Existent phenomena are defined as what is validly knowable. In the Sautrantika system, existent phenomena are divided into nonstatic objective entities and static metaphysical ones.

An overview of the two general positions regarding the main points of cognition theory of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Vaibhashika and Sautrantika definitions and presentations of the two truths and their modes of existence, as well as of self-sufficiently knowable and imputedly knowable phenomena.