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For example, Chinese Madhyamaka philosophers like Jizang, discussed the nonduality of the two truths. [220] Chinese Yogacara also upheld the Indian Yogacara views on nondualism. One influential text in Chinese Buddhism which synthesizes Tathagata-garbha and Yogacara views is the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana , which may be a Chinese ...
Vishishta Advaita, meaning "non-duality with distinctions", is a non-dualistic philosophy that recognizes Brahman as the supreme reality while also acknowledging its multiplicity. This philosophy can be characterized as a form of qualified monism , attributive monism, or qualified non-dualism.
Nonduality teachers (13 P) U. Universalism (12 C, 38 P) V. Vishishtadvaita Vedanta (14 P) Y. Yogacara (2 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Nonduality" The following 62 ...
According toNakamura, the non-duality of atman and Brahman "is a famous characteristic of Sankara's thought, but it was already taught by Sundarapandya" [172] (c.600 CE or earlier). [173] Shankara cites Sundarapandya in his comments to Brahma Sutra verse I.1.4:
For example, Taoists at first misunderstood emptiness (śūnyatā) to be akin to the Taoist notion of non-being. [41] In the Mādhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy, the two truths are two epistemological truths: two different ways to look at reality. The Sānlùn school (Chinese Mādhyamikas) thus rejected the ontological reading of the two ...
In his writings on non-duality, Spira summarises his approach in the following way: "Non-duality is the recognition that underlying the multiplicity and diversity of experience there is a single, infinite and indivisible reality, whose nature is pure consciousness, from which all objects and selves derive their apparently independent existence.
Vimalakīrti remains silent while discussing the subject of emptiness with an assembly of bodhisattvas. The bodhisattvas give a variety of answers on the question what non-duality is. Mañjuśrī is the last bodhisattva to answer, and says that "by giving an explanation they have already fallen into dualism".
The Huayan doctrines of interfusion and non-duality also leads to several seemingly paradoxical views. Some examples include: (1) since any phenomenon X is empty, this implies X is also not X; (2) any particular phenomenon is an expression of and contains the absolute and yet it retains its particularity; (3) since each phenomenon contains all ...