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- whatever belongs to this) triple world is nothing but mind (or thought: *cittamatra). Why? Because however I imagine things, that is how they appear." Regarding...
- Buddhism, such as in the Yogācāra school, which argued for a "mind-only" (cittamatra) philosophy on an analysis of subjective experience. In the West, idealism...
- discusses numerous Mahayana topics, such as Yogācāra philosophy of mind-only (cittamātra) and the three natures, the ālayavijñāna (store-house consciousness),...
- Bodhisattva precepts or moral rules. The first is ****ociated with the Cittamatra movement of Indian Buddhism, and is said to have originated with the bodhisattva...
- Yogācāra, also called Vijñānavāda (the doctrine of consciousness) and Cittamātra ("Mind-Only", Wylie: sems-tsam-pa). Yogacārins base their views on texts...
- Madhyamakālaṃkāra (verses 92–93), Śāntarakṣita says: By relying on the Mind Only (cittamatra), know that external entities do not exist. And by relying on this [madhyamaka]...
- Zen. Paul Williams notes that the sutra contains both the "mind-only" (cittamatra, Yogacara) teachings and the emptiness teachings (****ociated with Prajñaparamita...
- ineffable nature. Shentong has often been incorrectly ****ociated with the Cittamātra (Yogacara) position, but is in fact also Madhyamaka, and is present primarily...
- ultimate principle refers to reciting nianfo while knowing it as mind-only (cittamatra). Nianfo practice on the level of “non-obstruction of principle and phenomena”...
- consciousness"), Vijñaptivāda ("the doctrine of ideas or percepts"), or Cittamātra ("mind-only") school, founded by Asanga in the 4th century AD. Some scholars...