Editing Two truths doctrine (section)

===Advaita Vedānta===
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The [[Advaita Vedanta|Advaita]] school of [[Vedanta|Vedānta philosophy]] took over from the Buddhist [[Madhyamaka|Mādhyamaka]] school the idea of levels of reality.{{sfn|Renard|2004|p=130}} Usually two levels are being mentioned,{{sfn|Renard|2004|p=131}} but the school's founder [[Adi Shankara|Ādi Śaṅkara]] uses [[Advaita vedanta#Criterion of Sublation|sublation as the criterion]] to postulate an ontological hierarchy of three levels:{{sfn|Puligandla|1997|p=232}}<ref group=web name=Discrimination>[http://www.advaita-vision.org/discrimination/ advaita-vision.org, ''Discrimination'']</ref>{{refn|group=note|According to Chattopadhyaya, the Advaitins retain the term ''pāramārtha-satya'' or ''pāramārthika-satya'' for the ultimate truth, and for the ''loka saṃvṛti'' of the Mādhyamikas they use the term ''vyāvahārika satya'' and for ''aloka saṃvṛti'' they use the term ''prāthibhāsika'':<ref>{{cite book |title=''What is Living and What is Dead in Indian Philosophy'' 5th edition |author=Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya |pages=107, 104 |year=2001}}</ref>}}

* {{IAST|Pāramārthika}}: the absolute level, "which is absolutely real and into which both other reality levels can be resolved".<ref group=web name=Discrimination /> This experience can't be sublated by any other experience.{{sfn|Puligandla|1997|p=232}}
* {{IAST|Vyāvahārika}} (or ''saṃvṛti-satya'',{{sfn|Renard|2004|p=131}} empirical or pragmatical): "our world of experience, the phenomenal world that we handle every day when we are awake".<ref group=web name=Discrimination /> It is the level in which both ''[[Jiva|jīva]]'' (living creatures or individual souls) and ''[[Ishvara|Īśvara]]'' (Supreme Being) are true; here, the material world is also true.
* {{IAST|Prāthibhāsika}} (apparent reality or unreality): "reality based on imagination alone".<ref group=web name=Discrimination /> It is the level in which appearances are actually false, like the illusion of a snake over a rope, or a dream.