Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t4.5

v1.c7.s7.t4.5

The ultimate objective of Tibetan Buddhism Hetuvidya is to infer and prove the theoretic concepts of Buddhism such as “performing good deeds to eliminate evils, karma and retribution, eliminating worries and nirvana”. Meanwhile, it focusses on Dharmakirti’s Hetuvidya, proposes reality in external environment, admits objective existence, attaches importance to roles of Buddhist pramana in the process of knowing things and forms a kind of system of Hetuvidya theory with unique characteristics.