Yogacara

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Noun1.Yogacara - one of the main traditions of Mahayana Buddhism; holds that the mind is real but that objects are just ideas or states of consciousness
Mahayana Buddhism, Mahayana - one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone; the dominant religion of China and Tibet and Japan
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The words I have noticed in Z that fit this description, with Sanskrit correspondants, are devadatta- < Devadatta, anuvatatta- < Anavatapta, andvatta- < anapatti, anutpattia- < anutpattika-(dharma-ksanti), bodhi-citta- < bodhicitta, upaggutta- < Upagupta, uttara-pamcala- < Uttarapaacala, patavutta- < praty-upta, uttaruvu < Uttarakuru, uttaravata- < Uttarapatha, nimittana < nimittajna, nimitta- < nimitta, citta-matra- < cittamatra, maitra-catta- < maitracitta, vyatta-6 < vyakta, citta- < citta.
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Crosby and Skilton (82-87) identify it more specifically with a Cittamatra (Yogacara) view, because Cittamatra typically sees the highest truth in the absence of duality.
The metaphysical basis of Santideva's ethics
From the Cittamatra point of view, the main and immediate conditions (of bare sensory perception) are explained in almost the same way (as from that of the Svatrantrikas).
A compendium of ways of knowing

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