sautrāntika

Tibetan: མདོ་སྡེ་པ་
Tibetan (Wylie): mdo sde pa
Tibetan (phonetics): do de pa
English term: Followers of Sūtras
English Definition: One of the four Indian philosophical schools, within which it is one of the two schools of the Lower Vehicle. They receive their name from their adherence to the sūtras and their rejection of the Seven Abhidharma Treatises as Word of the Buddha. The main source for studying this school is Vasubhandu’s autocommentary on the Treasury of Knowledge and the works on Valid Cognition by Dignāga and Dharmakīrti. Their main tenets are: the ultimate existence of indivisble particles and indivisible moments of consciousness; consciousness does not apprehend objects directly, but a mental image of them; nirvana is not substantially existent, but an imputation; only the present exists substantially. Their main subdivision is between Sautrāntikas Following Scriptures and Sautrāntikas Following Reasoning.
Spanish: Seguidores de los Sutras