Questions tagged [yogacara]
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Resources to learn about yogacara buddhism
What are the best resources to learn about yogacara buddhism? Online resources, books, anything would be fine.
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Is Yogacara Buddhism still practiced today?
Is Yogacara Buddhism practiced today or is it an entirely dead school of Buddhist thought. If it is no longer in existence did it have any influence in Buddhist schools that are around today? For instance do any schools or traditions have a notion…
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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 dispositions will interact with each other and have…
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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 thesis?
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