Empty Even Conventionally with Guy Newland (2015)
Dr. Guy Newland explains the differences between the Svatantrika and Prasangika Madhyamaka views of conventional and ultimate truths and explores the use of logic or yogic approaches to realizing emptiness.
Emptiness and compassion
Dr. Guy Newland The importance of understanding emptiness correctly and how it relates to cultivating compassion.
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The Prasangika view
Tsongkhapa’s interpretation of the Prasangika view, and what it means to say that objects are mere imputations by thought.
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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.
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The Svatantrika view
Reviewing arguments that the ultimate nature cannot be known by the mind.
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Conventional and ultimate nature
How Tsongkhapa refutes the Svatantrika view of conventional existence, while retaining the possibility of understanding the ultimate nature of reality.
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Western perspectives on Tsongkhapa
Returning to Chapa chos kyi seng ge's refutation of Chandrakirti, which foreshadows Tsongkhapa.
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