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    Yogachara (Sanskrit: योगाचार, IAST: Yogācāra) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception...
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    East Asian Yogācāra refers to the traditions in East Asia which developed out of the Indian Buddhist Yogācāra (lit. "yogic practice") systems (also known...
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    Practicers/proponents of Yogacara stress attention to the issues of cognition, consciousness, perception, and epistemology. Yogacara Buddhism is based on...
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    Dan (2018). What is and isn't Yogacara. Lusthaus, Dan, What is and isn't Yogacara, http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/articles/intro.html Lusthaus, Dan...
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  • Eight Consciousnesses (category Yogacara)
    aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ) is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism. They enumerate the five sense consciousnesses...
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    Yogācāra and the logico-epistemology of Dharmakirti into a novel Madhyamaka philosophical system. This philosophical approach is known as Yogācāra-Mādhyamika...
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  • system first appears in the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra and in the works of the Yogācāra school. This classification system later became prevalent in various modified...
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  • Idealism is also found in some streams of Mahayana Buddhism, such as in the Yogācāra school, which argued for a "mind-only" (cittamatra) philosophy on an analysis...
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  • postulating an underlying "basis of unity", both in the Buddhist Madhyamaka and Yogacara schools, and in Advaita Vedanta, collapsing phenomenal reality into a "single...
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    Vasubandhu (category Yogacara scholars)
    his half-brother, Asanga, he was also one of the main founders of the Yogacara school. Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośakārikā ("Commentary on the Treasury...
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    equated with emptiness; with the alayavijñana ("storehouse-consciousness", a yogacara concept); and with the interpenetration of all dharmas (in East Asian traditions...
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    to exist in the first place. Candrakīrti also criticized the Buddhist yogācāra school, which he saw as positing a form of subjective idealism due to their...
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    Asanga (category Yogacara scholars)
    112 verses that are a key work in Yogācāra philosophy. D'amato also places this text in the second phase of Yogacara scholarship, i.e. after the Bodhisattvabhumi...
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  • The Yogācāra school examines emptiness through its central teaching of the three basic modes of existence or "three natures" (svabhāva). In Yogācāra, the...
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    Mahayana Buddhists traditionally consider Maitreya to be the founder of the Yogacara tradition through his revelation of various scriptures like the Mahāyānasūtrālamkārakā...
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    assertions and need not construct formal arguments. The central text of the Yogācāra school, the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra, explains emptiness in terms of the three...
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    of various Mahāyāna Yogacara texts on the philosophical theory known as vijñapti-matra (conscious construction only). The Yogacara school philosopher Asanga...
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  • of Temple University's Department of Religion, and is a specialist in Yogācāra. The author of several articles and books on the topic, Lusthaus has taught...
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  • Sthiramati was a student of a Yogācāra scholar named Gunamati, and he was also a contemporary of another 6th century Yogācāra scholar, Dharmapala of Nālandā...
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    thinkers deny that the Indian Yogacāra masters held the view of the ultimate existence of the mind, and thus, they place Yogācāra on a level comparable to...
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  • Indian and Tibetan doctrinal discussions on the topics of Madhyamaka, Yogacara, and the theory of Buddha-nature. Shentong adherents generally trace the...
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  • Nimitta (section In Yogacara)
    based on past karma or believed to foretell the dying's future destiny. In Yogacara philosophy, nimitta refers to the delusion that signs apprehended by the...
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    Sarvāstivadā Pudgalavada Sautrāntika Madhyamaka Svatantrika and Prasangika Śūnyatā Yogacara Tibetan Persian Mazdakism Mithraism Zoroastrianism Zurvanism...
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  • Anattā (section Yogācāra)
    texts attributed to the 5th-century Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu of the Yogācāra school similarly discuss anātman as a fundamental premise of the Buddha...
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  • comprehensive commentary on Vasubandhu's seminal Yogacara work Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā Yogacara, or Wei Shi in Chinese, a school of Buddhist philosophy...
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  • Cheng Weishi Lun (category Yogacara)
    Catalog number 1585), is a comprehensive treatise on the philosophy of Yogacara Buddhism and a commentary on Vasubandhu's seminal work, the Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā...
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    Zen (category Yogacara)
    sutras, which were influential early meditation texts mostly based on the Yogacara (yoga praxis) teachings of the Kashmiri Sarvāstivāda circa 1st–4th centuries...
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    Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā (category Yogacara)
    became one of the core texts for the Yogācāra school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. In it he touches on foundational Yogācāra concepts such as the storehouse consciousness...
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    Mahayana movement known as Yogācāra began to be systematized with the writings of Buddhist scholars Asanga and Vasubandhu. Yogācāra Buddhism provided a systematic...
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    he is said to have become an abbot. He is also said to have debated the yogācāra philosopher Chandragomin. According to Karen Lang: According to Bus ton...
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