Tenet Systems

In “A Filigree of Realizations” (“Abhisamayalamkara”), Maitreya explains the progression of the five levels of mind we achieve that serve as pathways leading to liberation and enlightenment.

An overview of the various Indian tenet systems’ view on how we view ourselves as persons in relation to the samsara-perpetuating five aggregates.

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

The contrast between the explanations of the two truths given by the Jetsunpa textbook tradition of the Gelug tradition and by the Sakya master Gorampa.

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 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 Gelug presentation of meditations on the different Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the selflessness of persons and phenomena.

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.

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.