Tenet Systems

Understanding the Vaibhashika and Sautrantika assertions of the two truths serves as a steppingstone for understanding the assertions of the Chittamatra, Svatantrika and Prasangika tenet systems.

Progressive understanding of the two truths as asserted by the four Indian Buddhist tenet systems helps for deconstructing deceptive appearances.

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...

Tsongkhapa was a revolutionary reformer who reinterpreted and clarified many of the key Buddhist teachings, especially concerning the assertions of the Prasangika tenet system concerning voidness, the two truths, the two obscurations and cognition theory.

Within Hinayana and Mahayana schools there are different categories and presentations of nirvana.

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 different views among the Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the difference between arhats’ and Buddhas’ understanding of the lack of an impossible “soul” of persons and phenomena.

The Indian Buddhist tenet systems differ in their views of the voidness or total absence of impossible ways that establish the existence of something and in their views of what establishes its conventional existence.

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.

We can view sectarianism in Buddhism superficially but looking at it deeply, we discover it to be a complex issue.