Madhyamika

Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་
Tibetan (Wylie): dbu ma pa
Tibetan (phonetics): u ma pa
English term: Proponents of the Middle Way
English Definition: One of the four Indian philosophical schools, within which it is one of the two schools of the Great Vehicle. It receives its name from their assertion about being beyond all the philosophical extremes, namely eternalism and nihilism. Their main ideas come from the works of Nāgārjuna, such as the “Root Verses of the Middle Way”, as well as those of later commentators like Aryadeva, Buddhapalāita, Bhāvaviveka, and Candrakīrti. Their main assertion are the two truths: conventional truth (i.e. the way things appear to minds obscured by ignorance) and absolute truth (i.e. reality as it is, beyond all extremes of conceptualization). According to this system, while phenomena appear at the relative level, they do not exist at the ultimate. The main subdivision within the school is between Proponents of Autonomous Inferences and Consequentialists.
Spanish: Proponentes del Camino del Medio