Understanding the Buddhist Concept of Bahyanumeya-Vada, Sautantrika՚s Ideology

Understanding the Buddhist Concept of Bahyanumeya-Vada

Sautantrika՚s Ideology

• According to the Sautantrika school of Hinayana, Ideas are not objects, but only the copies of the objects.
• In other words, different external objects exist outside our consciousness, depending upon these objects different forms or representations of consciousness arise.
• So, from these forms or representations of the objects in the mind, we can infer the existence of the objects outside the mind.
• Hence, the objects outside the …

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Criticism of Mahayana School by Hinayana, Nature of Mind, Nature of External Objects, Understanding the Material Object, Nature of Arguments

Criticism of Mahayana School by Hinayana

• According to the Sautantrika school of Hinayana, both, the mental and the external world are equally real.
• In other words, they believe in the reality of not only the mind but also of the external objects and things.
• As a result, they reject the views expounded by Yogacara school of Mahayana which only accepts the reality of mind alone.
• Most of their philosophy deals with providing a criticism to the philosophy and view of Yogacara School. They raise a number of …

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