Returning to Chapa chos kyi seng ge’s refutation of Chandrakirti, which foreshadows Tsongkhapa.
Western perspectives on Tsongkhapa
Dr. Guy Newland teaches how different Tibetan Buddhist schools of philosophy explain conventional and ultimate truths in order to understand the nature of reality. View as a series: Two Truths and Empty Even Conventionally.
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Dr. Guy Newland teaches how different Tibetan Buddhist schools of philosophy explain conventional and ultimate truths in order to understand the nature of reality. View as a series: Two Truths and Empty Even Conventionally.
Conventional and ultimate nature
How Tsongkhapa refutes the Svatantrika view of conventional existence, while retaining the possibility of understanding the ultimate nature of reality.
The Svatantrika view
Reviewing arguments that the ultimate nature cannot be known by the mind.
Understanding through reasoned logic
The ultimate nature being unknowable by the mind, versus arguments that it is possible to understand the ultimate nature through reasoned logic.
Imputations by thought
What it means for objects to be mere imputations by thought.
The Prasangika view
Tsongkhapa’s interpretation of the Prasangika view, and what it means to say that objects are mere imputations by thought.
Emptiness and compassion
The importance of understanding emptiness correctly and how it relates to cultivating compassion.
The two truths: Conclusion
The debate between Tsongkhapa and Bhavaviveka and Tsongkhapa’s interpretation of Chandrakirti.
The two truths: The Svatantrika view
A theatrical portrayal of Bhavaviveka elucidates the views of the Svatantrika Madhyamaka, or Middle Way Autonomy, system.
The two truths in the Cittamatra system
Exploring the view that there’s no external world, as taught in the Cittamatra system (one of the four tenets).