Yogacara
Sign in to saveYogachara () is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā). Yogachara was one of the two most influential traditions of Mahayana Buddhism in India, along with Madhyamaka.
Key facts
- Buddhist term.title
- Yogācāra school
- Buddhist term.sa
- Yogācāra, Vijñānavāda, Vijñaptivāda, Vijñaptimātratā, Cittamātra
- Buddhist term.zh
- 唯識瑜伽行派
- Buddhist term.zh Latn
- Wéishí Yújiāxíng Pài
- Buddhist term.ja
- 瑜伽行唯識派
- Buddhist term.ja Latn
- Yugagyō Yuishiki Ha
- Buddhist term.ko
- 유식유가행파
- Buddhist term.ko Latn
- Yusik-Yugahaeng-pa
- Buddhist term.bo
- རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་
- Buddhist term.bo Latn
- rnal 'byor spyod pa
- Buddhist term.vi
- Du-già Hành Tông
- Buddhist term.en
- Yoga Practice, Doctrine of Consciousness, Consciousness-Only Doctrine, Cognizance-Only, Mind-Only
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52 sectionsContents
- Doctrine
- The doctrine of ''vijñapti-mātra''
- Origins
- Arguments for consciousness-only
- Explanatory equivalence argument
- Causation-resemblance argument
- Constant co-cognition argument
- Argument from the impossibility of establishing causation
- Soteriological importance of mind-only
- Analysis of Consciousness
- Karma
- Eight consciousnesses
- ''Ālaya-vijñāna''
- Transformations of consciousness
- Account of intersubjectivity
- The three natures
- Two interpretations of the three natures
- Divisions of consciousness and their relationship to the three natures
- Emptiness
- Disagreement with Madhyamaka
- Mental images: true vs false
- Two types of Alīkākāravāda
- Meditation and awakening
- Five Categories of Beings
- Modern disagreement on the meaning of ''vijñapti-mātra''
- Idealism
- Mere representation
- Soteriological phenomenology
- Practice
- Bodhisattva path
- Bodhisattva practice
- The four investigations and four correct cognitions
- Four prayogas
- Meditation
- History
- Origin and early Yogācāra
- Classical Yogācāra - Asaṅga and Vasubandhu
- The middle period and the epistemological turn
- Yogācāra-tathāgatagarbha synthesis
- Yogācāra and Madhyamaka
- Yogācāra in East Asia
- Yogācāra in Tibet
- Influence
- Textual corpus
- Sūtras
- Treatises
- Criticisms
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
Yogachara () is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā). Yogachara was one of the two most influential traditions of Mahayana Buddhism in India, along with Madhyamaka.
The compound Yogācāra literally means "practice of yoga", or "one whose practice is yoga", hence the name of the school is literally "the school of the yogins". Yogācāra was also variously termed Vijñānavāda (the doctrine of consciousness), Vijñaptivāda (the doctrine of ideas or percepts) or Vijñaptimātratā-vāda (the doctrine of 'mere representation'), which is also the name given to its major theory of mind which seeks to deconstruct how we perceive the world. There are several interpretations of this main theory, which include various forms of idealism, as well as a phenomenology or representationalism. Aside from this, Yogācāra also developed an elaborate analysis of consciousness (vijñāna) and mental phenomena (dharmas), as well as an extensive system of Buddhist spiritual practice, i.e. yoga.