• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Once more on the two truths: What does Chi–Tsang mean by the two truths as ‘Yüeh–Chiao’?
  • Contributor: Lai, Whalen W.
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1983
  • Published in: Religious Studies
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0034412500015535
  • ISSN: 0034-4125; 1469-901X
  • Keywords: Philosophy ; Religious studies
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  • Description: <jats:p>The teaching of the Buddha concerning Reality has recourse to Two Truths: the Mundane and the Highest Truth.</jats:p><jats:p>Without knowing the distinction between the two, one does not know the profound point of the teachings.</jats:p><jats:p>The Highest Truth cannot be taught apart from the Mundane, but without understanding the former, one does not apprehend <jats:italic>nirvāna</jats:italic>.</jats:p>