Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
Nāgārjuna's "Sixty Verses on Reasoning" — emptiness via dependent-origination
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Yuktiṣaṣṭikā (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Matter · Conservation | Variable |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Energy · Conservation | Variable |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
Composed c. 150-250 AD; canonical Nāgārjuna Yukti-Corpus work.
Space
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
South Indian Andhra-region composition; transmitted to Tibet via Indo-Tibetan translation projects 8th-11th c.; subsequent Tibetan Madhyamaka traditions.
Matter
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
Emptiness, dependent-origination, the role of reasoning (yukti) in the soteriological recognition of emptiness, the deconstruction of svabhāva-realism.
Observer
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
Nāgārjuna as foundational Madhyamaka philosopher; alongside Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, the most influential Buddhist philosopher after the historical Buddha.
Energy
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
Dialectical-philosophical, contemplative-pedagogical, anti-substantialist energies; emphasises reasoning as path.
Information
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
60 verses (ṣaṣṭi = sixty); compressed kārikā-style philosophical Sanskrit (preserved Tibetan); with Candrakīrti commentary; one of the Yukti-Corpus.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Yuktiṣaṣṭikā is part of the canonical Nāgārjuna 'Yukti-Corpus' and is particularly important for Madhyamaka claims about the soteriological role of reasoning. Tsongkhapa's Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka synthesis — historically dominant in the Dge-lugs and broader Tibetan-Buddhist tradition — gives the Yuktiṣaṣṭikā significant weight in establishing the relation between dialectical-reasoning practice and direct realisation of emptiness.