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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@mukyo if you have to explain my joke to me it must have been a bad joke! Seriously, the Yogacara point is interesting . . .
integralhack (Matt Helmick) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:42:26 -0000
@mukyo if you have to explain my joke to me it must have been a bad joke! Seriously, the Yogacara point is interesting . . .
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RT @lux1008: Madhyamika expounds sunyata, true nature of phenomena - Yogacara expounds tathata, ultimate reality in itself (noumenon, su ...
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T.H. Huxley on Descartes on consciousness: http://tinyurl.com/yco35qb #atheist #religion #atheism #panpsychism #yogacara #soul #mind #dmt
myoshin (Curtis Steinmetz) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:53:10 -0000
T.H. Huxley on Descartes on consciousness: http://tinyurl.com/yco35qb #atheist #religion #atheism #panpsychism #yogacara #soul #mind #dmt
Madhyamika expounds sunyata, true nature of phenomena - Yogacara expounds tathata, ultimate reality in itself (noumenon, suchness)
lux1008 (Clara Llum) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:15:09 -0000
Madhyamika expounds sunyata, true nature of phenomena - Yogacara expounds tathata, ultimate reality in itself (noumenon, suchness)

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