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How does Yogācāra reconcile the ālaya-vijñāna with the doctrine of non-self without reifying consciousness?
In Yogācāra, the ālaya-vijñāna (storehouse consciousness) is described as containing karmic seeds and functioning as the basis for the arising of the six manifest consciousnesses.
However, since the ...
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What is sameness?
I read this:
“There are four kinds of sameness (samata) for those who discipline
themselves in religious life: appearance, causation, coming into
being, and the fourth is egolessness.”
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How is Cittamatra practiced in the Gelug school?
I'm new to studying Tibetan Buddhism. I'd like to ask how the Cittamatra doctrine is practiced in the Gelug school. I'm not referring to the hierarchy this school establishes of Yogacara as a ...
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About Vasubandhu and Sāṅkhyakārikābhāṣya (-saptati)
The dialectics between Buddhism and the philosophy of Sāṅkhya are profoundly recorded especially in Chinese and Tibetan Vāda Grantha-s — this is to the point that most major Sāṅkhya texts extant today ...
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can MN.43 be my alibi?
“Friend, these five faculties—each with a separate range, a separate domain, not experiencing one another’s range & domain: the eye-faculty, the ear-faculty, the nose-faculty, the tongue-faculty, &...
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What did Vasubandhu and Asanga say regarding Nagarjunacharya?
Given that Vasubandhu and Asanga came after Nagarjunacharya, who was a proponent of a major Buddhist school with a different philosophy. Did they or thier students like Dignaga say anything about ...
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What do the words of the Mahayana Buddhist mean?
A Mahayana Buddhist said:
Mahayana Buddhists agree that there other sentient beings exist, that
they have discrete mindstreams, and ingest and interpret reality in
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The Account of Other Minds in Chinese Yogācāra Buddhism
https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/80747
"POM1: Presume that other minds can be perceived. Then, they shall be like external forms and
have no real existence.
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Is Mahayana Buddhism a form of idealism?
Do Mahayana Buddhists believe that the whole world and all objects are created by the mind? For example, my friend and I see a train. Do I and my friend see the same train?
Tell me if it is correct to ...
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Elaboration of Vasubandhu's argument for the possibility of mental appearances to be publicly sharable?
The vivid qualitative experience of a word (or called "quale" as a philosophical jargon, "private language" as a linguistic jargon) formed by each person is intrinsically different ...
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Is the Tathagata 'special'?
Mahayana or Theravada, or any other offshoot. Is a Buddha an exception? Or a personification?
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Is the Alayavijnana momentary?And is it shared in Yogacara?
I am hearing contradictorary things.Is the alayavijnana shared in yogacara?And is it momentary and subject to Kshanabhanga?What does vasubandhu say and the early yogacarins?Please cite sources.
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I don't understand how the yogacara container universe can be possible
The Yogacara container universe model posits that shared reality is due to similar karmic traces or samskaras of sentient beings.this is perfectly fine,as sentient beings with similar karmic ...
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What are the arguments Yogacara makes to deny the reality of sensory objects?
Yogacara and Vasubandhu etc deny that matter exists by itself but rather that is comes from awareness and is merely a perception of the mind.what are the arguments Yogacarins make to prove their main ...
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Does Yogacara and its Alayavijnana fail compared to a Permanent Self?
So I've been Reading a bit of the Buddhist's boogeyman Shankara and I admit I am maybe biased in writing this(I am open to any refutation of my view,but I have not seen any adequate logical refutation ...
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