- Absolute(1930 [1893]: 129)
- One system whose contents are nothing but sentient experience; a single and all-inclusive experience embracing every partial diversity in concord.
- Candrakīrti(as the main philosopher being discussed)
- An Indian Buddhist philosopher from around the 600s CE who wrote detailed commentaries on Buddhist logic and metaphysics, particularly focusing on the idea that nothing has a permanent, independent essence.
- Mādhyamika(the philosophical tradition Candrakīrti belongs to)
- A major school of Buddhist philosophy that argues everything lacks permanent, unchanging essence—things only exist in relation to other things, not independently.
- Pariniṣpanna(describing the kind of eternal nature being critiqued)
- A Sanskrit term meaning 'perfectly established' or 'fully real'—referring to something that exists completely on its own, independent of anything else.
- Reifies(as used in philosophy and social theory)
- Makes something abstract seem like a solid, unchangeable thing—basically treating an idea as if it's a permanent physical object.
- Substantialist error(the fundamental philosophical mistake being discussed)
- The mistake of believing that things have their own permanent, independent essence or 'substance' that makes them what they are.
- Yogācāra(Buddhist philosophy debate with realism)
- A Buddhist philosophical school that argues against the reality of external objects, here described as mounting defensive arguments against realist challenges