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According to [[Longchenpa]] they are:
According to [[Longchenpa]] they are:
*[[Samkhya]] (Skt. ''Sāṃkhya''; Tib. [[གྲངས་ཅན་པ་]], Wyl. ''grangs can pa'')
*[[Samkhya]]  
*[[Vaisheshika]] (Skt. ''Vaiśeṣika''; Tib. [[བྱེ་བྲག་པ་]], Wyl. ''bye brag pa'')
*[[Vaisheshika]]  
*[[Mimamsaka]] (Skt. ''Mīmāṃsaka''; Tib. [[དཔྱོད་པ་བ་]], Wyl. ''dpyod pa ba'')
*[[Mimamsaka]]  
*[[Jain]] (Skt. ''Jaina'') or Nigrantha ('the naked ones') (Skt.; Tib. [[གཅེར་བུ་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gcer bu pa'')
*[[Jain]]
*[[Charvaka]] (Skt. ''Cārvāka''; Tib. [[རྒྱང་འཕེན་པ་]], Wyl. ''rgyang 'phen pa'') or Brihaspati (Skt. ''Bṛhaspati''; Tib. ཕུར་བུ་པ་, Wyl. ''phur bu pa'')  
*[[Charvaka]] or Brihaspati (Skt. ''Bṛhaspati''; Tib. ཕུར་བུ་པ་, Wyl. ''phur bu pa'')  


[[Category:Sanskrit Terms]]
[[Category:Sanskrit Terms]]

Revision as of 06:10, 20 September 2018

The five tarka schools or the five sophist schools (Skt. tārkika; Tib. ཏརྐ་སྡེ་ལྔ་ or སྟོག་གེ་སྡེ་ལྔ་, Wyl. tarka sde lnga or rtog ge sde lnga) — a grouping of non-Buddhist schools. It is said that all the non-Buddhist views can be condensed into these five schools.

According to Longchenpa they are: