Two Truths doctrine

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The Two Truths doctrine is a central Buddhist philosophical teaching that distinguishes between conventional, everyday reality and ultimate, emptiness-based reality to explain how things can function while lacking inherent existence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist philosophical doctrine
Madhyamaka doctrine
doctrine of truth
alsoKnownAs doctrine of two truths
dve satye
satya-dvaya
two levels of truth
associatedWith Middle Way (Madhyamaka)
linked to: Middle Way

Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka
Svātantrika Madhyamaka
centralIdea distinction between conventional and ultimate reality
compatibleWith everyday linguistic conventions
moral responsibility on the conventional level
coreConceptOf Madhyamaka
Mahāyāna Buddhism
linked to: Mahayana
denies ultimate inherent existence of phenomena
developedBy Nāgārjuna
linked to: Nagarjuna
explains how things can function while lacking inherent existence
expoundedIn Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
goalWithin clarifying path to enlightenment
hasComponent conventional truth
ultimate truth
hasDebateOn epistemic versus ontological interpretation
relationship between the two truths
status of conventional truth
influenced East Asian Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Yogācāra-Madhyamaka syntheses
comparative philosophy of religion
modern Buddhist philosophy
interpretedBy Bhāviveka
Candrakīrti
Tsongkhapa
linked to: Je Tsongkhapa

Śāntarakṣita
originatedIn Indian Buddhism
relatedConcept four noble truths (as conventionally true)
non-foundationalism in Buddhist thought
two levels of reality
religiousTradition Buddhism
teaches conventional truth concerns everyday, functional reality
emptiness (śūnyatā)
phenomena lack svabhāva
ultimate truth concerns emptiness of inherent existence
usedToExplain compatibility of emptiness and conventional causality
dependent origination
non-duality of samsara and nirvana

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East Asian Buddhism coreDoctrine Two Truths doctrine
Perfection of wisdom (prajñāpāramitā) relatedConcept two truths doctrine
linked to: Two Truths doctrine
Hossō coreDoctrine two truths doctrine
linked to: Two Truths doctrine
Tiantai school doctrine Threefold Truth
linked to: Two Truths doctrine
Śūnyatāsaptati associatedConcept two truths doctrine
linked to: Two Truths doctrine
Candrakīrti philosophicalPosition two truths doctrine (conventional and ultimate)
linked to: Two Truths doctrine
Tiantai patriarchs coreDoctrine Threefold Truth
linked to: Two Truths doctrine