Buddhist philosophy

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Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of Buddhism. It encompasses the philosophical ideas and systems of inquiry developed by Buddhist schools in ancient India following the parinirvāṇa of Gautama Buddha (c. 5th century BCE), as well as subsequent developments across Asia. Buddhism combines both philosophical reasoning and the practice of meditation. The Buddhist religion presents a multitude of Buddhist paths to liberation; and with the expansion of early Buddhism from ancient India to Sri Lanka and subsequently to East Asia and Southeast Asia, Buddhist philosophers have examined subjects including cosmology, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of time, and soteriology. Early Buddhist texts describe the Buddha as declining to answer certain metaphysical questions because he considered them irrelevant to the attainment of liberation. However...

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