Rangton/shentong debate

This wiki gives a good history of it. Bruce Alderman* discussed how metaphysical views, both east and west, saw the absolute realm as a primal whole underlying the relative realm, or fundamental elements from which the rest of the material realm was constructed. That is, it expresses as the reduction of reality to our direct access to it in toto like the metaphysical notions of eastern meditative traditions, or our direct access to reality via representational models of reason typical of western empirical traditions.

* Integral Theory Conference, 2013