檢視 Vaibhashika 毗婆沙宗的原始碼

[[image:Vasubandhu.JPG|frame|[[Vasubandhu]], whose ''[[Abhidharmakosha]]'' is the main source of Vaibhashika philosophy in Tibet]]
The '''Vaibhashikas''' (Skt. ''Vaibhāṣika''; Tib. [[བྱེ་བྲག་སྨྲ་བ་]], ''chedrak mawa''; [[Wyl.]] ''bye brag smra ba'') or ‘proponents of differences’ are so-called because they base their tenets on the text called ''[[Mahavibhasha]]'' (Tib. བྱེ་བྲག་བཤད་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་, Wyl. ''bye brag bshad mdzod chen mo''), and/or because they posit the past, present and future as distinct and substantially existent temporal categories.

==The Vaibhashika View of the Two Truths==

[[Khenpo Ngakchung]] says:

:The ''[[Abhidharmakosha]]'' says:

::Things which, when destroyed or mentally dissected,<br>
::Can no longer be identified by the mind,<br>
::Such as pots or water, are relative;<br>
::All else besides is ultimately existent.<br>
::''Treasury of Abhidharma'', VI, 4<br>

:As this says, any coarse thing which can be smashed to pieces with a hammer or dissected into parts by the mind, so that the mind which apprehended that coarse appearance no longer identifies it as such, belongs to the '''[[relative truth]]'''. Then concerning the absolute, any coarse material thing or state of consciousness can be broken down into its ultimate constituents, which are individual particles or moments. Therefore the [[partless particle]]s, which are the ultimate constituents of coarser things, and the [[indivisible moments of consciousness]], which are the ultimate constituents of mental phenomena, are said to be '''[[absolute truth]]'''.

===Other Tenets===
*They categorize phenomena according to the [[five basic categories of knowable phenomena]].
*They reject the idea that consciousness knows itself. The consciousnesses perceive their objects by means of their respective [[sense faculties]] directly without any images (or representations or mental features or ''aspects'') (Tib. [[རྣམ་པ་]], Wyl. ''rnam pa'').
*Characteristics such as arising, dwelling and ceasing are believed to exist in a way that is distinct from the entities they characterize.
*They say that 'inexhaustible substance' is the basis for [[karma]].

==Alternative Translations==
*Particularists
*Proponents of Difference

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