Yogācāra (Sanskrit: "yoga practice"), also spelled yogāchāra, is an influential school of philosophy and psychology that developed in Indian Mahayana Buddhism starting sometime in the fourth to fifth centuries C.E., also commonly known as Consciousness-only (Sanskrit: Cittamātra).

Sometimes referred to as the Knowledge Way or Vijnanavada, Yogācāra has also been called Subjective Realism, acknowledging that individual factors including karma contribute to an experience of reality that must be different for every being.

According to them, only consciousness (Vijñāna) is true, and all objects of this world external to the mind are false. They believed in an absolute, permanent consciousness (similar to a soul) called ālaya vijñāna. This branch became well-known in China, Tibet, Japan and Mongolia.

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Actually, that #Yogacara link is terrible. Here's Sutton's book on Yogacara which is much more on point http://bit.ly/ELw0M #buddhism
oneinchbuddha (oneinchbuddha) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:45:44 -0000
Actually, that #Yogacara link is terrible. Here's Sutton's book on Yogacara which is much more on point http://bit.ly/ELw0M #buddhism
This is precisely what the #Yogacara school means by "All three worlds are mind only" http://bit.ly/Cjb3s #multiverse #buddhism
oneinchbuddha (oneinchbuddha) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:37:01 -0000
This is precisely what the #Yogacara school means by "All three worlds are mind only" http://bit.ly/Cjb3s #multiverse #buddhism

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