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One of the main features of Yogācāra philosophy is the concept of vijñapti-mātra. It is often used interchangeably with the term citta-mātra in modern and ancient Yogacara sources. [7] [13] [14] The standard translation of both terms is "consciousness-only" or "mind-only."
The Madhyamaka philosophy continued to be of major importance during the period of Indian Buddhism when the tantric Vajrayana Buddhism rose to prominence. One of the central Vajrayana Madhyamaka philosophers was Arya Nagarjuna (also known as the "Tantric Nagarjuna", 7th–8th centuries) who may be the author of the Bodhicittavivarana as well as ...
Ashok Kumar Chatterjee (27 November 1925 – 21 April 2021 [2]) was an Indian philosopher and Buddhist scholar who taught philosophy at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. [3] He is best known for his book The Yogãcāra Idealism, published in 1962, in which he interpreted Yogacara-Vijnanavada school of Buddhism. [4]
The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ [1]) is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism.They enumerate the five sense consciousnesses, supplemented by the mental consciousness (manovijñāna), the defiled mental consciousness (kliṣṭamanovijñāna [2]), and finally the fundamental store-house consciousness ...
A 14th century Japanese scroll of the Cheng Weishi Lun (Jp:Jōyuishikiron). Cheng Weishi Lun (Chinese: 成唯識論; pinyin: Chéng Wéishí Lùn, CWSL, Sanskrit reconstruction: *Vijñaptimātrāsiddhiśāstra, English: The Treatise on the Demonstration of Consciousness-only, Taisho Catalog number 1585), is a comprehensive treatise on the philosophy of Yogacara Buddhism and a commentary on ...
Huiyuan's works mainly follow the thought of the previous Dilun masters, who syncretized the Yogacara philosophy of Vasubandhu and the buddha-nature thought of the Nirvana sutra. [2] [7] Huiyuan also later studied with a scholar of the Shelun tradition, Tanqian (曇遷, 542–607). [8] [9] Huiyuan later resided at Qinghuasi monastery.
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra often presents a mind-only philosophy influenced by the idealistic thought of the Yogacara school. According to the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra "all things are only manifestations of the mind itself" i.e. all phenomena are "mind-only" ( cittamātra ) or "ideation-only" ( vijñaptimatra ). [ 13 ]
The Mahāyānasaṃgraha (MSg) (Sanskrit; Chinese: 攝大乘論; pinyin: Shè dàchéng lùn, Tibetan: theg pa chen po bsdus pa), or the Mahāyāna Compendium/Summary, is a key work of the Yogācāra school of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy, attributed to Asanga (c. 310–390 CE). [1]