'jig rten rgyang phan pa

'jig rten rgyang phan pa

A school of thought that rejected the Vedas and other religious texts and considered only empirical knowledge and inference to be valid. More commonly known in later literature as Cārvāka and in its Anglicized form Charvaka. It preexisted and was contemporary with the early centuries of Buddhism. Its literature no longer exists unless one takes the ninth-century text Tattvopaplavasiṃha by Jayarāśi Bhaṭṭa as associated with that school, which most scholars do not.

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