Tattvasamgraha

The Tattva-saṃgraha is a text written by the 8th century Indian Buddhist pandit Śāntarakṣita. The text belongs to the 'tenets' (Siddhanta, Tib. sgrub-mtha) genre and is an encyclopedic survey of Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical systems in the 8th century.^[1]

Śāntarakṣita's student Kamalashila wrote a commentary on it, entitled Tattva-saṃgraha-pañjikā.

Chapters

The Tattva-saṃgraha has twenty-six chapters on the following topics:^[1]

The Sāṃkhya doctrine of primordial matter (prakṛti) as the source of the physical world
Various doctrines of God as the source of the world
The doctrine of inherent natures (svabhāva) as the source of the world
Bhartṛhari’s doctrine of Brahman-as-language as the source of the world
The Sāṃkhya-Yoga doctrine of human spirit (puruṣa)
Examination of the doctrines of the self (ātman) in the Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā, Sāṃkhya, Digambara Jaina, Advaita and Buddhist personalist (pudgalavādin) schools
The doctrine of the permanence of things
Various doctrines of karma and its ripening
A critical examination of substance
A critical examination of quality
A critical examination of action
A critical examination of universals
A critical examination of particularity
A critical examination of inherence (the relation between universals and particulars and between substances and qualities)
An examination of words and their meanings
An examination of sense perception
An examination of inference
An examination of other means of acquiring knowledge
A critical examination of Jaina epistemology
An examination of time
A critical examination of materialism
On the external world (that is, the world external to consciousness)
A critical examination of revelation as a source of knowledge
Examination of the idea that some propositions are self-validating
Examination of the notion of supernormal powers

References

^ ^a ^b Hayes, Richard (2021), "Madhyamaka", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2022-08-26

External links

The Tattvasangraha (with commentary) English translation by Ganganatha Jha, 1937 (includes glossary)

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[:0-1] Hayes, Richard (2021), "Madhyamaka", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2022-08-26

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