Five tarka schools

Five tarka schools (Skt. pañcatarkavargāḥ; T. རྟོག་གེ་སྡེ་ལྔ་), or five sophist schools. A grouping of non-Buddhist schools. It is said that all the non-Buddhist views can be condensed into these five schools.

According to Longchenpa, the five schools are:

1. Samkhya
2. Vaisheshika
3. Mimamsaka
4. Jain
5. Charvaka or Brihaspati (Skt. Bṛhaspati; Tib. ཕུར་བུ་པ་, Wyl. phur bu pa)

An alternative list includes:

1. grangs can pa (Samkhya);
2. dbang phyug pa (Aishvara);
3. rgyal ba pa (Jaina);
4. khyab 'jug pa (Vaishnava);
5. chad pa'i lta ba (Nihilists)

See also

• Six non-Buddhist schools