Yogacara: History and Doctrines

Chester (John) Powers

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Yogacara: History and Doctrines

Chester (John) Powers

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This article provides an introduction to YogÄcÄra. Indian Buddhist thinkers considered a wide range of philosophical problems, and each school was concerned with distinctive issues and adopted characteristic approaches. The Middle Way School (Madhyamaka) was mainly concerned with dialectical debate and applied a reductio ad absurdum (prasaá¹…ga) approach to the analysis of various philosophical systems. The Yogic Practice (YogÄcÄra) tradition, the other major philosophical strand of ancient and medieval Indian Buddhism, produced a number of influential treatises on epistemology and logic, and it dismissed the Madhyamaka focus on argument as a waste of time and as antithetical to the pursuit of liberation from cyclic existence, which for its proponents was founded on introspective meditation

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy
Editors	William Edelglass and Jay L. Garfield
Place of Publication	Oxford, UK
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	1-13
Volume	1
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9780195328998
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195328998.001.0001
Publication status	Published - 2011

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