Prasangika
The Prasangika (Skt. Prāsaṅgika; Tib. ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་, Wyl. thal 'gyur) or 'Consequence' tradition is a subdivision of the Madhyamika school of philosophy. A defining feature of this approach is its use of consequentialist arguments (Skt. prasaṅga) to establish the ultimate truth of emptiness beyond all conceptual elaboration. This approach was first explicitly formulated by the Indian scholar Buddhapalita and later elaborated upon and defended by Chandrakirti. In the Nyingma tradition of Mipham Rinpoche the Prasangika are defined as "those who emphasize straight away the uncategorized absolute truth, which is the union of appearance and emptiness, the inseparability of the two truths during meditative equipoise, and enter directly into the inconceivable, inexpressible primordial wisdom that is beyond the mind."[1]
Notes
- ↑ dang po nyid nas mnyam bzhag bden gnyis dbyer med snang stong zung 'jug rnam grangs ma yin pa'i don dam bden pa khas len kun bral rtsal du bton nas blo 'das smra bsam brjod med kyi ye shes cig char 'jug pa
Further Reading
- The Svatantrika-Prasangika Distinction—what difference does a difference make?, edited by Georges B.J. Dreyfus and Sara L. McClintock (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2005).