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*[[Vaisheshika]] (Skt. ''Vaiśeṣika''; Tib. [[བྱེ་བྲག་པ་]], Wyl. ''bye brag pa'')
*[[Vaisheshika]] (Skt. ''Vaiśeṣika''; Tib. [[བྱེ་བྲག་པ་]], Wyl. ''bye brag pa'')
*[[Mimamsaka]] (Skt. ''Mīmāṃsaka''; Tib. [[དཔྱོད་པ་བ་]], Wyl. ''dpyod pa ba'')
*[[Mimamsaka]] (Skt. ''Mīmāṃsaka''; Tib. [[དཔྱོད་པ་བ་]], Wyl. ''dpyod pa ba'')
*[[Jain]] (Skt. ''Jaina'') or '''Nigrantha''' ('the naked ones') (Skt.; Tib. [[གཅེར་བུ་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gcer bu pa'')
*[[Jain]] (Skt. ''Jaina'') or Nigrantha ('the naked ones') (Skt.; Tib. [[གཅེར་བུ་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gcer bu pa'')
*[[Charvaka]] (Skt. ''Cārvāka''; Tib. [[རྒྱང་འཕེན་པ་]], Wyl. ''rgyang 'phen pa'') or Brihaspati (Skt. ''Bṛhaspati''; Tib. ཕུར་བུ་པ་, Wyl. ''phur bu pa'')  
*[[Charvaka]] (Skt. ''Cārvāka''; Tib. [[རྒྱང་འཕེན་པ་]], Wyl. ''rgyang 'phen pa'') or Brihaspati (Skt. ''Bṛhaspati''; Tib. ཕུར་བུ་པ་, Wyl. ''phur bu pa'')  



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The five tarka schools or the five sophist schools (Skt. tārkika; Tib. ཏརྐ་སྡེ་ལྔ་ or སྟོག་གེ་སྡེ་ལྔ་; Wyl. tarka sde lnga or rtog ge sde lnga) — a grouping of non-Buddhist schools. It is said that all the non-Buddhist views can be condensed into these five schools.

According to Longchenpa they are