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    Yogachara (redirect from Vijñānavāda)
    literally "the school of the yogins". Yogācāra was also variously termed Vijñānavāda (the doctrine of consciousness), Vijñaptivāda (the doctrine of ideas...
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    theories, such as the Madhyamaka theory of emptiness (śūnyatā), the Vijñānavāda ("the doctrine of consciousness" also called "mind-only"), and the Buddha-nature...
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    the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, Vijñanavada (awareness only; also called Vijñaptivāda, the doctrine of ideas or percepts...
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    ("the doctrine that there are only ideas" or "mental impressions") or Vijñānavāda ("the doctrine of consciousness"). According to Mark Siderits, what classical...
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  • leads to conditioned arising, dependent origination. According to the Vijnanavada school, there are 51 samskaras or mental factors. Saṅkhāra is a Pali...
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    Indian Buddhist Yogācāra (lit. "yogic practice") systems (also known as Vijñānavāda, "the doctrine of consciousness" or Cittamātra, "mind-only"). In East...
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    are the two major Indian Mahayana philosophies: Yogācāra, also called Vijñānavāda (the doctrine of consciousness) and Cittamātra ("Mind-Only", Wylie: sems-tsam-pa)...
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    Nagarjuna [...] The debts of Shankara to the self-luminosity of the Vijnanavada Buddhism can hardly be overestimated. There seems to be much truth in...
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    the grammarian Candragomin, who supported the idealist position of the Vijñanavada (Doctrine of Consciousness) school. Tibetan sources further add that...
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    of Nāgārjuna [...] The debts of Śaṅkara to the self-luminosity of the Vijñānavāda Buddhism can hardly be overestimated. There seems to be much truth in...
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    Thomas E. Mind Only: A Philosophical and Doctrinal Analysis of the Vijñānavāda, p. 85. Motilal Banarsidass Publisher, 1994. Edelglass, W.; Garfield...
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    contains several polemical verses critical of Buddhism, particularly the Vijñānavāda school of Vasubandhu. Barbara Miller also notes numerous similarities...
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    sutra "the link between the Prajñāpāramitā literature and the Yogācāra Vijñānavāda school". This sūtra was translated from Sanskrit into Chinese four times...
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    contains several polemical verses critical of Buddhism, particularly the Vijñānavāda school of Vasubandhu. While Patañjali was influenced by Buddhism, and...
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  • known as "mind-only" (cittamatra) or "the consciousness doctrine" (vijñanavada) were mostly associated with the Indian Buddhist philosophers of the...
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    which held that only consciousness exists, and thus was also known as Vijñānavāda (the doctrine of consciousness). The Dignāga-Dharmakīrti tradition is...
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    Mahayana was the Yogācāra ("yoga practice") school, also known as the Vijñānavāda ("the doctrine of consciousness"), Vijñaptivāda ("the doctrine of ideas...
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  • Buddhism, Jainism, and Kashmiri Shaivism." The surviving text mentions Vijnanavada and Madhyamaka schools of Buddhism by name, suggesting that the corresponding...
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    as a form of Phenomenology. Other names for the Yogācāra school are 'vijñanavada' (the doctrine of consciousness) and 'cittamatra' (mind-only). Yogācāra...
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    element of underlying idealism of the kind which emerges later in the vijñanavada." Furthermore, for the Theravada, nibbana is uniquely the only asankhata...
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  • Śaṅkaranandana defended the idealistic Yogacara theory of "consciousness only" or Vijñānavāda through the logical refutation of any external objects of cognition....
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    contains several polemical verses critical of Buddhism, particularly the Vijñānavāda school of Vasubandhu. The suttas show that during the time of the Buddha...
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    Shaiva Siddhanta. The Saivas also were influenced by the work of Buddhist Vijñānavāda and Pramanavada philosophers, especially Dharmakirti, who was also taken...
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    work Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy · Vedanta · Vijnanavada · Hegel's phenomenology · Heidegger's hermeneutics · Bakhtin's semiotics ·...
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  • April, 1988 Mind Only: A Philosophical and Doctrinal Analysis of the Vijnanavada by Thomas E. Wood. University of Hawaii Press. 1991 Middle Beyond Extremes:...
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    exposition of the Madhyamika school nor the characteristic terminology of the Vijnanavada school appears." Nakamura, as cited in Comans 2000 p.98. It is often...
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    Jonardon Ganeri, though Buddhaghosa may have been influenced by Yogacara Vijñānavāda, "the influence consists not in endorsement but in creative engagement...
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    the Madhyamaka in a way that employs the assertions specific to the Vijñānavāda, Śāntarakṣita was the one to found an actual system in which the ultimate...
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  • conventional sense. The school of Dharmakīrti is known to follow the view of Vijñānavāda which denies the existence of an external world and is thus a kind of...
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    doctrines of the Laṅkāvatāra are the primacy of consciousness (Skt. vijñānavada), the teaching that consciousness as the only reality and that "all the...
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