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Yogacara

Proper noun

Meaning

Yogacara

Alternative form of Yogachara

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

Madhyamaka is seen by Chokden as removing the fault of taking the unreal as being real, and Yogacara removes the fault of the denial of Reality. Source: Internet

Dolpopa (Dol-bo-ba, 1292–1361), founder of the Jonang school, developed a view called shentong (Wylie: gzhan stong) (other empty), which is closely tied to Yogacara and Buddha-nature theories. Source: Internet

Other names for the Yogacara school are 'Vijñanavada' (the doctrine of consciousness) and 'Cittamatra' (mind-only). Source: Internet

The later Yogacara commentator Sthiramati explains this thus: "There is a grasper if there is something to be grasped, but not in the absence of what is to be grasped. Source: Internet

The Yogacara view, a minority school now only found among the Mahayana, also rejects monism. Source: Internet

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