Yogacara: Indian Buddhist Origins

Chester (John) Powers

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199358120.003.0002

Yogacara: Indian Buddhist Origins

Chester (John) Powers

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transforming Consciousness: Yogacara Thought in Modern China
Editors	John Makeham
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	41-63
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9780199358137
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199358120.003.0002
Publication status	Published - 2014

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