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Yogachara (Sanskrit: योगाचार, IAST: Yogācāra) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā).
21. Dez. 2023 · What Does Yogachara Mean? Yogachara is one of two main philosophical schools of Indian Mahayana Buddhism. Translated from Sanskrit, it literally means “one who practices yoga.” Yogachara uses meditation and yogic practices to explore various levels of consciousness and to study perception and cognition.
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Yogācāra philosophy is primarily meant to aid in the practice of yoga and meditation and thus it also sets forth a systematic analysis of the Mahayana spiritual path (see five paths pañcamārga). Yogācārins made use of ideas from previous traditions, such as Prajñāpāramitā and the Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma, to develop a new schema for spiritual practi...
The Yogācāra, along with the Madhyamaka, is one of the two principal philosophical schools of Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism, while the Tathāgatagarbha-thought was also influential.[note 1]
Sūtras
Key concepts associated with the Yogācāra school are presented in a number of Mahayana sutras, such as: 1. Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra 1.1. Known for its presentation of the Three Turnings of the Wheel of the Dharma. It also presents key Yogacara concepts such as the eight consciousnesses, cognition-only (vijñapti-mātra), and the three natures (trisvabhāva). 2. Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra 2.1. Discusses Yogācāra topics such as: the three natures, the store-house consciousness (ālayavijñāna), the inner "dispo...
Asaṅga, Vasubandhu and early Śāstras
Some of the earliest Yogācāra material can be found in the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, such as the doctrines of ālayavijñāna and āśrayaparāvṛtti. This text, a massive encyclopedic work on yogic praxis, is traditionally attributed to Asaṅga (4th century) or Maitreya, but most scholars (such as Schmithausen and Aramaki) believe it contains the work of many authors, and its components reflect various stages of historical development. Most of its material is non-Mahayana and according to Lusthaus, it d...
Other figures and texts
According to Williams, there is a fairly early Yogācāra work surviving in Sanskrit called the Alokamala (‘Garland of Light’) of Kambala (c. 450–525), which "gives of a form of Yogācāra just prior to the vigorous critical Madhyamika response to it represented by the works of Bhavaviveka." Williams also notes that this work "tries to harmonize where possible the Madhyamika position with that of Yogācāra." Important commentaries on various Yogācāra texts were written by Sthiramati (6th century)...
According to Lusthaus, Étienne Lamotte, a famous student of Louis de La Vallée-Poussin, "...profoundly advanced Yogācāra studies, and his efforts remain unrivaled among Western scholars."
There are two important aspects of the Yogācāra schemata that are of special interest to modern-day practitioners. One is that virtually all schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism came to rely on these Yogācāra explanations as they created their own doctrinal systems, including the Zen schools. For example, the early Zen tradition in China was sometimes refe...
Yogachara, an influential idealistic school of Mahayana Buddhism. Yogachara attacked both the complete realism of Theravada Buddhism and the provisional practical realism of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana Buddhism. The name of the school is derived from the title of an important 4th- or.
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Definitions. References. Sources. Further reading. External links. Eight Consciousnesses. The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ [1]) is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism.
Vijñānavāda (Bewusstseinslehre), auch Cittamātra (Nur-Geist) oder Yogācāra ( Yoga -Praxis) genannt, ist eine von Asanga und Vasubandhu ca. im 4. Jh. gegründete philosophische Schule des Mahāyāna-Buddhismus.
Yogachara (Yogācāra; literally “yoga practice”; “one whose practice is yoga”) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditative and yogic practices.
