It could be safely said that it is one of the characteristic features of the Madhyamika school to adopt the "two truths theory" in bridging samsara and nirvana. The "two truths" are conventional truth (samvrti-satya) and the highest truth (paramartha-satya). Generally speaking, the Svatantrika-Madhyamika school accepts that there exists an overlapping sphere between the world of conventional truth and that of the highest truth, while the Prasangika-Mamdhyamika school holds, to the contrary, that those two worlds are distinct from each other. As far as the interpretation of the "two truths theory" is concerned, Tsong kha pa (1357-1419), curiously enough, takes the course of the Svatantrika-Madhyamika school, although he is an adherent of the Prasangika-Madhyamika thought on other controversial points. In my last article in this journal I dealt with some aspects of Tsong kha pa's paramarthic world by focusing on some functions of analytical reasoning (rigs pa or risgs shes) ; in the present paper I depict a fairly intricate structure of Tsong kha pa's conventional world. I will then throw light on the above-mentioned attitude he shows in his interpretation of the "two truths theory" based on the results of these two articles in the next jourral.
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I 388 II 386 III 383 IV 377 結び 374 註 374 略号表 361 引用及び参考文献 360 付論帰謬派の言説有を設定する知について 353 註 347
