Tattvasamgraha

The Tattva-saṃgraha is a text written by the 8th century Indian Buddhist pandit Śāntarakṣita. The text belongs to the 'tenets' (Siddhanta, Tib. sgrub-mtha) genre and is an encyclopedic survey of Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical systems in the 8th century.

Śāntarakṣita's student Kamalashila wrote a commentary on it, entitled Tattva-saṃgraha-pañjikā.

Chapters
The Tattva-saṃgraha has twenty-six chapters on the following topics:


 * 1) The Sāṃkhya doctrine of primordial matter (prakṛti) as the source of the physical world
 * 2) Various doctrines of God as the source of the world
 * 3) The doctrine of inherent natures (svabhāva) as the source of the world
 * 4) Bhartṛhari’s doctrine of Brahman-as-language as the source of the world
 * 5) The Sāṃkhya-Yoga doctrine of human spirit (puruṣa)
 * 6) Examination of the doctrines of the self (ātman) in the Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā, Sāṃkhya, Digambara Jaina, Advaita and Buddhist personalist (pudgalavādin) schools
 * 7) The doctrine of the permanence of things
 * 8) Various doctrines of karma and its ripening
 * 9) A critical examination of substance
 * 10) A critical examination of quality
 * 11) A critical examination of action
 * 12) A critical examination of universals
 * 13) A critical examination of particularity
 * 14) A critical examination of inherence (the relation between universals and particulars and between substances and qualities)
 * 15) An examination of words and their meanings
 * 16) An examination of sense perception
 * 17) An examination of inference
 * 18) An examination of other means of acquiring knowledge
 * 19) A critical examination of Jaina epistemology
 * 20) An examination of time
 * 21) A critical examination of materialism
 * 22) On the external world (that is, the world external to consciousness)
 * 23) A critical examination of revelation as a source of knowledge
 * 24) Examination of the idea that some propositions are self-validating
 * 25) Examination of the notion of supernormal powers