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Yogācāra : Indian Buddhist Origins

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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by John Powers
This chapter provides a historical overview of Yogācāra in India, including its place in Indian Buddhist doxography; its representative thinkers and commentators from the fourth through to the eleventh centuries, as well as important Yogācāra scholars from the Tibetan tradition; the school’s main scriptural sources (Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra; Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra; Abhidharma-samuccaya; Abhidharma-kośa; Mahāyāna-saṃgraha; Madhyānta-vibhāga; Viṃśikā; Triṃśikā); key doctrines (such as buddhahood; seeds; base consciousness; five sense consciousnesses; mental factors; three wheels; three natures; dependent arising; idealism); Yogācāra psychology and meditation theory; and Yogācāra soteriology and hermeneutics.

History

Chapter number

1

Pagination

41-63

ISBN-13

9780199358144

ISBN-10

0199358141

Language

English

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2014, Oxford University Press

Extent

12

Editor/Contributor(s)

Makeham J

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place of publication

New York, N.Y.

Title of book

Transforming Consciousness : Yogacara thought in modern China