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The '''Six Orthodox Hindu Schools''' — the most common grouping of orthodox Hindu schools. After some [[Shramana]] movements like Buddhism and [[Jain|Jainism]] gained strength, Hindu scholars began to define some schools as orthodox (Skt. ''āstika'') and some as heterodox (Skt. ''nāstika''). As long as one accepted the revelatory status of the [[Vedas]], and the cast system, the school was considered orthodox. There have been many debates about the exact classifications. For example, some schools asserted the Buddha to be an incarnation of [[Vishnu]]. However, the most common list of orthodox schools consist of the following six: | The '''Six Orthodox Hindu Schools''' — the most common grouping of orthodox Hindu schools. After some [[Shramana]] movements like Buddhism and [[Jain|Jainism]] gained strength, Hindu scholars began to define some schools as orthodox (Skt. ''āstika'') and some as heterodox (Skt. ''nāstika''). As long as one accepted the revelatory status of the [[Vedas]], and the cast system, the school was considered orthodox. There have been many debates about the exact classifications. For example, some schools asserted the [[Buddha]] to be an incarnation of [[Vishnu]]. However, the most common list of orthodox schools consist of the following six: | ||
*[[Samkhya]] (Skt. ''sāṃkhya''; Tib. [[གྲངས་ཅན་པ་]], Wyl. ''grangs can pa'') | *[[Samkhya]] (Skt. ''sāṃkhya''; Tib. [[གྲངས་ཅན་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''grangs can pa'') | ||
*[[Yoga]] (Skt. | *[[Yoga]] (Skt.) | ||
*[[Vaisheshika]] (Skt. ''Vaiśeṣika''; Tib. [[བྱེ་བྲག་པ་]], Wyl. ''bye brag pa'') | *[[Vaisheshika]] (Skt. ''Vaiśeṣika''; Tib. [[བྱེ་བྲག་པ་]], Wyl. ''bye brag pa'') | ||
*[[Nyaya]] (Skt. ''Nyāya''; Tib. རིག་པ་ཅན་པ་, Wyl. ''rig pa can pa'') | *[[Naiyayika|Nyaya]] (Skt. ''Nyāya''; Tib. རིག་པ་ཅན་པ་, Wyl. ''rig pa can pa'') | ||
*[[Mimamsaka]] (Skt. ''Mīmāṃsaka''; Tib. [[དཔྱོད་པ་བ་]], Wyl. ''dpyod pa ba'') | *[[Mimamsaka]] (Skt. ''Mīmāṃsaka''; Tib. [[དཔྱོད་པ་བ་]], Wyl. ''dpyod pa ba'') | ||
*[[Vedanta]] (Skt. Vedānta) | *[[Vedanta]] (Skt. ''Vedānta'') | ||
The Samkhya and Yoga share a common metaphysics in their earliest writings, Nyaya and Vaisheshika both deal with logic and proto-science, and Mimamsa and Vedanta are based on the interpretation of Vedic literature. <ref>See Hillary Rodrigues, ''Introducing Hinduism'' (New York: Routledge, 2006), 193. </ref> | The Samkhya and Yoga schools share a common metaphysics in their earliest writings, Nyaya and Vaisheshika both deal with logic and proto-science, and Mimamsa and Vedanta are based on the interpretation of Vedic literature.<ref>See Hillary Rodrigues, ''Introducing Hinduism'' (New York: Routledge, 2006), 193. </ref> Buddhist, Jain and [[Charvaka]] schools were considered heterodox. | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:42, 12 November 2020
The Six Orthodox Hindu Schools — the most common grouping of orthodox Hindu schools. After some Shramana movements like Buddhism and Jainism gained strength, Hindu scholars began to define some schools as orthodox (Skt. āstika) and some as heterodox (Skt. nāstika). As long as one accepted the revelatory status of the Vedas, and the cast system, the school was considered orthodox. There have been many debates about the exact classifications. For example, some schools asserted the Buddha to be an incarnation of Vishnu. However, the most common list of orthodox schools consist of the following six:
- Samkhya (Skt. sāṃkhya; Tib. གྲངས་ཅན་པ་, Wyl. grangs can pa)
- Yoga (Skt.)
- Vaisheshika (Skt. Vaiśeṣika; Tib. བྱེ་བྲག་པ་, Wyl. bye brag pa)
- Nyaya (Skt. Nyāya; Tib. རིག་པ་ཅན་པ་, Wyl. rig pa can pa)
- Mimamsaka (Skt. Mīmāṃsaka; Tib. དཔྱོད་པ་བ་, Wyl. dpyod pa ba)
- Vedanta (Skt. Vedānta)
The Samkhya and Yoga schools share a common metaphysics in their earliest writings, Nyaya and Vaisheshika both deal with logic and proto-science, and Mimamsa and Vedanta are based on the interpretation of Vedic literature.[1] Buddhist, Jain and Charvaka schools were considered heterodox.
Notes
- ↑ See Hillary Rodrigues, Introducing Hinduism (New York: Routledge, 2006), 193.