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2 unusual facts about Yogacara


Weishi

Yogacara, or Wei Shi in Chinese, a school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing phenomenology and ontology

Yogacara

In modern western philosophical discourse, Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty have approached what western scholarship generally concedes to be a standard Yogācāra position.


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Maitreya-nātha

Maitreya-nātha (ca. 270-350 CE) is a name whose use was pioneered by Buddhist scholars Erich Frauwallner, Giuseppe Tucci, and Hakuju Ui to distinguish one of the three founders of the Yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy, along with Asaṅga and Vasubandhu.

Śīlabhadra

He is best known as being an abbot of Nālandā monastery in India, as being an expert on Yogācāra teachings, and for being the personal tutor of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang.

Tibetan Buddhist canon

Also of great importance are the "Five Treatises of Maitreya." These texts are said to have been related to Asanga by the Buddha Maitreya, and comprise the heart of the Yogacara (or Cittamatra, "Mind-Only") school of philosophy in which all Tibetan Buddhist scholars are well-versed.

Weishi

Cheng Weishi Lun, comprehensive commentary on Vasubandhu's seminal Yogacara work Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā


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