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    Yogachara is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy that emphasizes phenomenology and ontology through meditative practices. It originated in India in the 4th century CE and was associated with Mahayana Buddhism. The school is focused on explaining how human experience is constructed by the mind alone. Key figures in developing Yogachara teachings included Asanga and Vasubandhu, who composed influential texts on the school's tenets such as the basis-consciousness, the doctrine of cognition-only, and the three natures. Yogachara aims to realign later Buddhist philosophical developments with the early Buddhist doctrines found in the Pali Nikayas.

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    Yogachara (IAST Yogacara; literally yoga practice; one whose practice is yoga)[1]
    is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing
    phenomenology and ontology[2] through the interior lens of meditative and yogic
    practices. It was associated with Indian Mahayana Buddhism in about the fourth
    century,[3] but also included non-Mahayana practitioners of the Dar??antika school.
    [4]

    Yogacara discourse explains how our human experience is constructed by the mind.

    Contents [hide]
    1 Nomenclature, orthography and etymology
    2 History
    2.1 Origination
    2.2 Asa?ga and Vasubandhu
    2.3 Yogacara and Madhyamaka
    2.4 Yogacara in East Asia
    2.5 Yogacara in Tibet
    2.6 Principal exponents of Yogacara
    3 Textual corpus
    3.1 Sutras
    3.2 Five treatises of Maitreya
    3.3 Asanga
    3.4 Vasubandhu
    3.5 Later texts
    4 Tenets
    4.1 Vijapti-matra
    4.2 Consciousness
    4.2.1 Karma, seeds and storehouse-consciousness
    4.2.2 Transformations of consciousness
    4.2.3 Tathagata-garba thought
    4.3 The Three Natures
    4.4 Emptiness in Yogacara
    5 Meditation and awakening
    5.1 Meditation
    5.2 Five Categories of Beings
    6 Contemporary scholarship
    6.1 Philosophical dialogue Yogacara, idealism and phenomenology
    7 Legacy
    8 See also
    9 Notes
    10 References
    11 Sources
    12 External links
    Nomenclature, orthography and etymology[edit]

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    Sanskrit Yogacara, Vijanavada, Vijapti-matra, Vijapti-matrata, or Cittamatra
    Chinese ???; pinyin Wish Zong Consciousness-Only School), Wish Yqiexng Pi
    (?????? Consciousness-Only Yogacara School), Faxing Zong (???, Dharmalak?a?a
    School), C'en Zong (??? Ci'en School)
    Japanese Yuishiki (?? Consciousness-Only), Yugagyo (??? Yogacara School)
    Korean Yusik-jong (??? Consciousness-Only School), Yugahaeng-pa (???? Yogacara
    School), Yusik-Yugahaeng-pa (?????? Consciousness-Only Yogacara School)
    Vietnamese Duy Th?c Tng (Consciousness-Only School), Du-gi Hnh Tng (Yogacara
    School)
    Tibetan ??????????????????, Wylie rnal 'byor spyod pa, THL Nenjor Chpa Yogacara,
    Tibetan ????????, Wylie sems tsam, THL Semtsam Cittamatra
    Mongolian ??????
    English Yoga Practice School, Consciousness-Only School, Subjective Realism, Mind-
    Only School
    History[edit]
    The Yogacara, along with the Madhyamaka, is one of the two principal philosophical
    schools of Indian Mahayana Buddhism.[5]

    Origination[edit]
    The earliest text of this tradition is the Sa?dhinirmocana Sutra which might be as
    early as the first or second century CE.[6] It includes new theories such as the
    basis-consciousness (alaya-vijana), and the doctrine of cognition-only (vijapti-
    matra) and the three natures (trisvabhava). However, these theories were not
    completely new, as they have predecessors in older theories held by previous
    Buddhist schools, such as the Sautrantika theory of seeds (bija) and the Sthavira
    nikaya's abhidharma theory of an unconscious Bhavanga.[7] Richard King has also
    noted the similarity of the Sautantrika representationalism and the Yogacara

    The Sautrantika accept that it is only the form (akara) or representation


    (vijapti) of an object which is perceived. Where the schools differ is in the
    Yogacara refusal to accept the validity of discussing external objects as causes
    (nimitta) given that an external object is never (directly) perceived.[8]

    The Sa?dhinirmocana Sutra, as the doctrinal trailblazer of the Yogacara,


    inaugurated the paradigm of the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, with its own
    tenets in the third turning.[5] The Yogacara texts are generally considered part of
    the third turning along with the relevant sutra. (Some traditions categorize this
    teaching as within the fourth turning of the wheel of Dharma.) Moreover, Yogacara
    discourse surveys and synthesizes all three turnings and considers itself as the
    final definitive explanation of Buddhism.

    The orientation of the Yogacara school is largely consistent with the thinking of
    the Pali nikayas. It frequently treats later developments in a way that realigns
    them with earlier versions of Buddhist doctrines. One of the agendas of the
    Yogacara school was to reorient the complexity of later refinements in Buddhist
    philosophy to accord with early Buddhist doctrine.[9]

    Asa?ga and Vasubandhu[edit]

    Maitreya and disciples. Gandhara, 3rd century CE

    Statue of Vasubandhu (jp. Seshin), Kofuku-ji, Nara, Nara Japan.


    Yogacara, which had its genesis in the Sa?dhinirmocana Sut

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