The Middle Way Autonomy School of the four schools of Buddhist philosophy. See also Madhyamaka.

The Prasangika school has dominated Buddhism in Tibet since the Second Dissemination, and most surviving works of the principal exponents exist only in Tibetian translation. Buddhapalita, a student of Shantarakshita, was one of the first Madhyamaka masters to fully adopt syllogistic methods in his teachings, although of a particularly limited form. While Candrakirti is generally credited with the founding of the Prasangika school, it was in fact Buddhapalita who first introduced the method of using logical consequence to refute the arguments of an opponent. It is this use of prasanga, also described as a proof reduction ad absurdum, that characterizes the Prasangika school of Madhyamaka Buddhism.

One of the major schools of Madhyamaka Buddhism, represented by Buddhapalita and Chandrakirti.