Vijñānavāda

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Vijñānavāda is a major Mahayana Buddhist philosophical school that emphasizes consciousness-only (mind-only) as the basis of experience and reality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist doctrine
Buddhist idealist school
Mahayana Buddhist philosophical school
aimsAt elimination of cognitive distortions
realization of perfected nature
alternativeName Cittamātra
Consciousness-only school
linked to: Yogācāra

Mind-only school
linked to: Yogācāra

Yogācāra
associatedText Madhyānta-vibhāga
Mahāyāna-saṃgraha
Trisvabhāva-nirdeśa
Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā
Viṃśatikā-vijñaptimātratā
Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra
branchOf Mahayana Buddhism
linked to: Mahayana
contrastedWith Madhyamaka
coreDoctrine consciousness-only (vijñapti-mātra)
linked to: Vijñānavāda

dependent nature (paratantra-svabhāva)
eight consciousnesses
imagined nature (parikalpita-svabhāva)
mind-only (citta-mātra)
perfected nature (pariniṣpanna-svabhāva)
storehouse consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna)
three natures (trisvabhāva)
debatedWith Sarvāstivāda
Sautrāntika
linked to: Sautrāntika school
developedIn India
developedInPeriod 4th century
5th century
emphasizes consciousness as basis of experience
illusory nature of external objects
non-duality of subject and object
transformation of consciousness on the path to awakening
influenced Chinese Faxiang school
linked to: Faxiang school

East Asian Buddhism
Japanese Hossō school
linked to: Hossō school

Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism
keyFigure Asaṅga
Dharmapāla
Maitreya-nātha
linked to: Maitreya

Sthiramati
Vasubandhu
Xuanzang
languageOfKeyTexts Sanskrit
philosophicalOrientation epistemological analysis of experience
idealism
phenomenalism
religiousTradition Buddhism

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Yogācāra alternativeName Vijñānavāda
Hosso sect coreDoctrine Consciousness-only (vijñaptimātra)
linked to: Vijñānavāda
Hossō school coreDoctrine Consciousness-only (Vijñaptimātra)
linked to: Vijñānavāda
Hossō parentTradition Vijñānavāda
Nyaya Sudha philosophicalSchool Tattvavada
linked to: Vijñānavāda
Anandatirtha founded Tattvavada
linked to: Vijñānavāda
Udupi Ashta Mathas associatedWith Tattvavada
linked to: Vijñānavāda
Asanga philosophicalSchool Vijnanavada
linked to: Vijñānavāda
Vasubandhu philosophicalSchool Vijñānavāda
Vijñānavāda coreDoctrine consciousness-only (vijñapti-mātra)
linked to: Vijñānavāda
Cittamātra alternativeName Vijñānavāda
Asaṅga philosophicalSchool Vijñānavāda
Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra mainDoctrine Vijñaptimātra (representation-only)
linked to: Vijñānavāda