Yogacara
Proper noun
Meaning
Yogacara
Alternative form of Yogachara
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.
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.
Other names for the Yogacara school are 'Vijñanavada' (the doctrine of consciousness) and 'Cittamatra' (mind-only).
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.
The Yogacara view, a minority school now only found among the Mahayana, also rejects monism.