Five tarka schools
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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:
- Samkhya
- Vaisheshika
- Mimamsaka
- Jain
- Charvaka or Brihaspati (Skt. Bṛhaspati; Tib. ཕུར་བུ་པ་, Wyl. phur bu pa)