Tenet Systems

The Gelug explanation of how all our problems come about because of confusion about appearances, how the mind makes appearances and what is arising and engaged with when we talk about mental activity.

The non-conceptual understanding of voidness will stop the tainted aggregates from uncontrollably recurring. 

An advanced, detailed presentation, according to the various Buddhist tenet systems, of the practitioners’ progress in terms of the “five paths.” These five refer to the five levels of pathway minds we achieve, which lead to liberation and enlightenment.

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

All Indian Buddhist tenet systems, except Vaibhashika, agree that the validly knowable “me” is not a self-sufficiently knowable phenomenon, it is imputedly knowable.

The Nalanda masters of India are the authors of the major texts for studying the four major Buddhist tenet systems to suit the dispositions and capacities of different disciples.

Karma refers to the compelling urges driving our behavior and the compulsive forms our behavior takes. Learn how each of the Buddhist tenet systems uses the basic terminology to describe the mechanism involved.

The discussion of Buddha-nature appears only among the Mahayana schools and each of them interprets Buddha-nature differently.

The Prasangika refutation of the so-called “false self” provides the subtlest, most sophisticated deconstruction of this misconceived version of how we and others exist. In order to understand fully the Prasangika view, we need to go step by step through the grosser...