Yogacara

Yogācāra (Sanskrit: "yoga practice"; "one whose practice is yoga"Jones, Lindsay (Ed. in Chief) (2005). Encyclopedia of Religion. (2nd Ed.) Volume 14: p.9897. USA: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 0-02-865983-X (v.14)) is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing phenomenology and (some argue) ontologyBuddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet by John Makransky. SUNY Press: 1997. ISBN 0791434311 through the interior lens of meditative and yogic practices. It developed within Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism circa the fourth century C.E.Zim, Robert (1995). Basic ideas of Yogācāra Buddhism. San Francisco State University. Source: (accessed: October 18, 2007). Yogācāra discourse is founded on the idea that mind and perceptions exist but there is nothing external to them: this means that the subject object duality is false. Some interpreters (e.g. Dan Lusthaus) go further and assert that Yogacara is completely silent on what does and does not exist, only questioning the validity of making ontological claims. Other scholars argue that Yogacara is a form of idealism and denies not just that our perceptions of tables and chairs intend or are about anything but there is nothing for them to be about, nothing apart from mind.
The orientation of the Yogācāra school is largely consistent with the thinking of the Pali Nikayas. It frequently treats later developments in a way that realigns them with earlier versions of Buddhist doctrines. Lusthaus concludes that one of the agendas of the Yogācāra school was to reorient later refinements, in all their complexity, so as to accord with the doctrines of earliest Buddhism.Dan Lusthaus, Buddhist Phenomenology. Routledge, 2002, page 43.
==Nomenclature, orthography and etymology==
Sanskrit: Yogācāra (योगाचार), Vijñānavāda (विज्ञानवाद), Vijñapti-matra, Vijñapti-matrata, or Cittamātra
Tibetan: sems tsam
Mongolian: егүзэр, yeguzer
Chinese: Wéishí 唯識 ("Consciousness-Only"), Fǎxiàng 法相 ("Dharma Characteristics"), Yújiā Zōng 瑜珈宗 ("Yoga School")
Japanese: Yugāgyo-ha, Yuishiki 
English: Way of Yoga School, Yoga Practice School, Knowledge Way, Consciousness-Only School, Subjective Realism 
"Yogācāra" may be orthographically rendered according to English convention as "yogachara", which also approximates the phonetic value. An alternate nomenclature for the school is "Vijñānavāda" (Sanskrit: vāda means "doctrine" and "way"; vijñāna means "consciousness" and "discernment". Hence, "Vijñānavāda" may be rendered as "Consciousness Doctrine" or "Discernment Way"; though it is commonly rendered as "Knowledge Way".Authorship unattributed (2006). Yogacara. Yogacara Network. (accessed: November 20, 2007)
==History==
The Yogācāra is, along with the Mādhyamaka, one of the two principal schools of Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism.Jones, Lindsay (Ed. in Chief)(2005). Encyclopedia of Religion. (2nd Ed.) Volume 14; Masaaki, Hattori (Ed.)(1987 & 2005)"Yogācāra": p.9897. USA: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 0-02-865983-X (v.14) 
===Origination===
Masaaki (2005) states that: "[a]ccording to the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, the first Yogācāra text, Buddha set the "wheel of the doctrine" (Dharmacakra) in motion three times." Hence, the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, as the doctrinal trailblazer of Yogācāra, inaugurated the endemic categorical triune of the the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma; establishing its tenets among the exegesis of the Dharmacakra's "Third Turning". The Yogācāra texts are generally considered part of the Third Turning along with the relevant sūtra.Some traditions categorize this teaching amongst the "Fourth Turning" of the Dharmacakra. Moreover, Yogācāra discourse surveys and syncretically redacts all Three Turnings.
The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted in the syncretic scholasticism of Nālandā University where the doctrine of Vijñapti-matra or Cittamātra was first extensively propagated. Doctrines, tenets and derivatives of this school have influenced and become well-established in China, Tibet, Japan and Mongolia and throughout the world via the dissemination and dialogue wrought by the Buddhist diaspora.
Yogācāra, like all Indian schools of Buddhism, eventually became extinct within India.
===Vasubandhu, Asaṅga and Maitreya-nātha ===
Yogācāra, which had its genesis in the aforementioned sutra, was largely formulated by the brahmin born half-brothers Vasubandhu and Asaṅga (who was said to be inspired by the quasi-historical Maitreya-nātha or the divine Maitreya). This school held a prominent position in the Indian scholastic tradition for several centuries due to its lauded pedigree and propagation at Nālandā.
===Yogācāra and Mādhyamaka===
Notably, this school was in protracted dialectic with the Mādhyamaka; there is disagreement among contemporary Western and traditional Buddhist scholars about the degree to which they were opposed, if at all. In short (and though rather simplistic and not entirely true), while the Mādhyamaka held that asserting the existence or non-existence of any ultimately real thing was inappropriate, some exponents of Yogācāra asserted that the mind (or in the more sophisticated variations, primordial wisdom) and only the mind is ultimately real. Not all Yogācārins asserted that mind was truly existent, according to some interpretations Vasubandhu and Asaṅga in particular did not.Dan Lusthaus, "What is and what isn't Yogacara." .
Later Yogācāra views synthesized the two, particularly Śāntarakṣita, whose view was later called "Yogācāra-Svatantrika-Mādhyamaka" by the Tibetan tradition. In his view the Mādhyamika position is ultimately true and at the same time the mind-only view is a useful way to relate to conventionalities and progress students more skillfully toward the ultimate.Shantarakshita & Ju Mipham (2005) pp.117-122 This synthesized view between the two positions — which also incorporated views of valid cognition from Dignāga and Dharmakirti — was one of the last developments of Indian Buddhism before it was extinguished in the eleventh century during the Muslim incursion.
This view was also expounded by Xuanzang, who after a suite of debates with exponents of the Mādhyamaka School, composed in Sanskrit the no longer extant three-thousand verse treatise The Non-difference of Mādhyamaka and Yogācāra.Lusthaus, Dan (undated). Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang). Source: (accessed: December 12, 2007)
Later Yogācāra teachings are especially important in Tantric Buddhism, which evolved within their development in India.
===Yogācāra in Tibet===
Yogācāra was transmitted to Tibet by Śāntarakṣita and later by Atiśa; it was thereafter integral to Tibetan Buddhism although the prevailing Geluk-dominated view held that it was less definitive than Mādhyamaka. Yogācāra is primary to the Nyingmapa and its zenith, Dzogchen. Yogācāra also became central to East Asian Buddhism. The teachings of Yogācāra became the Chinese Wei Shi school of Buddhism.
Current debates among Tibetan schools between the "Shentong" (empty of other) versus "Rangtong" (empty of self) views appear similar to earlier debates between Yogācāra and Mādhyamaka, but the issues and distinctions have evolved further. Though the later Tibetan views could be said to have evolved from the earlier Indian positions, the distinctions between the views became increasingly subtle, especially after Yogācāra incorporated the Mādhyamika view of the ultimate. In the 19th century rime movement commenter Ju Mipham — in his commentary on Shantarakshita's synthesis — wrote that the ultimate view by both schools is the same and the result of each path also leads to the same ultimate state of abiding.
===Divergence of the Yogācāra of India and China===
By the closure of the Sui Dynasty (589-618), Buddhism within China had developed many distinct schools and traditions. Xuanzang, in the words of Dan Lusthaus: 
...came to the conclusion that the many disputes and interpretational conflicts permeating Chinese Buddhism were the result of the unavailability of crucial texts in Chinese translation. In particular, he [Xuanzang] thought that a complete version of the Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra, an encyclopedic description of the stages of the Yogācāra path to Buddhahood written by Asaṅga, would resolve all the conflicts. In the sixth century an Indian missionary named Paramārtha (another major translator) had made a partial translation of it. Xuanzang resolved to procure the full text in India and introduce it to China.
 
Moreover, Dan Lusthaus charts the different dialectic and divergent traditions of Buddhism within India and China discovered by Xuanzang and mentions the Buddha-nature, Awakening of Faith, and Tathāgata-garbha:
Xuanzang also discovered that the intellectual context in which Buddhists disputed and interpreted texts was much vaster and more varied than the Chinese materials had indicated: Buddhist positions were forged in earnest debate with a range of Buddhist and non-Buddhist doctrines unknown in China, and the terminology of these debates drew their significance and connotations from this rich context. While in China Yogācāra thought and Tathāgata-garbha thought were becoming inseparable, in India orthodox Yogācāra seemed to ignore if not outright reject Tathāgata-garbha thought. Many of the pivotal notions in Chinese Buddhism (e.g., Buddha-nature) and their cardinal texts (e.g., The Awakening of Faith) were completely unknown in India.
===Principal exponents of Yogācāra===
Principal exponents of Yogācāra categorized and alphabetized according to location:
*China: Xuanzang 玄奘 and Kuiji 窺基 (K'uei-chi);
*India: the half-brothers Asaṅga and Vasubandhu; Sthiramati and Dharmapāla
*Japan: Chitsū 智通 and Chidatsu 智達 (NB: both these people are mentioned in Kusha (Buddhism))
*Korea: Daehyeon 大賢, Sinhaeng (神行 ;704-779), Weonchuk (圓測 ; 631-696) and Weonhyo (zh: 元曉 ; 원효; 617 - 686)
*Tibet: Dolpopa, Taranatha, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ju Mipham
==Yogācāra textual corpus==
===Sūtras===
The Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra ("Unravelling the Mystery of Thought Sutra, 2nd Century CE) was the seminal Yogācāra sutra, which continued to be a primary referent for the tradition. Also containing Yogācāra elements were the Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sūtra (1st Century CE) and Daśabhūmika Sūtra (pre-3rd century CE).A Concise History of Buddhism by Andrew Skilton, Windhorse Publications: 2004. ISBN 904766926 The later Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ("Descent into Laṅkā Sūtra", 4th century CE) also assumed considerable importance.Foundations of Buddhism, by Rupert Gethin. Oxford University Press: 1998. ISBN 0192892231 Other prominent Yogācāra sutras include the Śrīmālādevīsiṃhanāda Sūtra and the Ghanavyūha Sūtra.Being As Conciousness: Yogācāra Philosophy of Buddhism. by Fernando Tola and Carmon Dragonetti. pg xiii
===Five treatises of Maitreya===
Among the most important texts to the Yogācāra tradition to be the "Five Treatises of Maitreya." These texts are said to have been related to Asaṅga by the Buddha Maitreya. They are as follows:
* Ornament for Clear Realization (Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra, Tib. mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan)
* Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sutras (Mahāyāna-sūtra-alaṅkāra, Tib. theg pa chen po'i mdo sde'i rgyan)
* Sublime Continuum of the Mahāyāna (Ratna-gotra-vibhāga, Tib. theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan)
* Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being (Dharma-dharmatā-vibhāga, Tib. chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed pa)
* Distinguishing the Middle and the Extremes (Madhyānta-vibhāga, Tib. dbus dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa)
A commentary on the Ornament for Clear Realization called "Clarifying the Meaning" by Haribhadra is often used, as is one by Vimuktisena.
The so-called Five works of Maitreya is a Tibetan invention. Neither the Indians nor the Chinese recognize the above list. There are some suggestions that the "Ornament for Clear Realization" may have emerged from a later period than is generally ascribed.
===Other texts===
Vasubandhu wrote three foundational texts of the Yogācāra: the "Treatise on the Three Natures" (Sanskrit: Trisvabhāva-nirdeśa, Tib. Rang bzin gsum nges par bstan), the "Treatise in Twenty Stanzas" (S: Vimsatikā-kārikā) and the "Treatise in Thirty Stanzas" (S: Trimsikaikā-kārikā). He also wrote an important commentary on the Madhyantavibhanga. According to Buddhist scholar Jay Garfield:
While the Trisvabhāva-nirdeśa is arguably the most philosophically detailed and comprehensive of the three short works on this topic composed by Vasubandu, as well as the clearest, it is almost never read or taught in contemporary traditional cultures or centers of learning. The reason may be simply that this is the only one of Vasubandhu’s root texts for which no autocommmentary exists. For this reason, none of Vasubandhu’s students composed commentaries on the text and hence there is no recognized lineage of transmission for the text. So nobody within the Tibetan tradition (the only extant Mahāyāna scholarly tradition) could consider him or herself authorized to teach the text. It is therefore simply not studied, a great pity. It is a beautiful and deep philosophical essay and an unparalleled introduction to the Cittamatra system.Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation. Garfield, Jay L. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0195146727 pg128
Authorship of critical Yogācāra texts is also ascribed to Asaṅga personally (in contrast to the Five Treatises of Maitreya). Among them are the Mahāyāna-saṃgraha and the Abhidharma-samuccaya. He is sometimes ascribed authorship of the Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra, a massive encyclopedic work considered the definitive statement of Yogācāra, but most scholars believe it was compiled in the 5th century CE. 
Other important commentaries on various Yogācāra texts were written by Sthiramati (6th century CE) and Dharmapāla (7th century CE), and an influential Yogācāra-Mādhyamaka synthesis was formulated by Śāntarakṣita (8th century).
==Yogācāra Tenets==
A main point of entry into Yogācāra soteriology is the "two hindrances" (Sanskrit: dve āvaraṇe; Tibetan: sgrib pa gñis). Muller (2005) charts a second employing an admixture of the "eight consciousnesses" (Sanskrit: Aṣṭa Vijñāna), "four parts of cognition", "three natures", and the "anātman", but this is specific to Wonhyo and no-one else adopted it.Muller, A. Charles (2005; 2007). Wonhyo's Reliance on Huiyuan in his Exposition of the Two Hindrances. (Published in Reflecting Mirrors: Perspectives on Huayan Buddhism. Imre Hamar, ed., Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, p. 281-295.) Source: (accessed: January 2, 2008)
Hattori Masaaki (2005) states that Yogācāra: 
...attaches importance to the religious practice of yoga as a means for attaining final emancipation from the bondage of the phenomenal world. The stages of yoga are systematically set forth in the treatises associated with this tradition. 
 
Keenan, et al. (2003) states that:
...the Yogācāra thinkers did not simply comment on Mādhyamika thought. They attempted to ground insight into emptiness in a critical understanding of the mind, articulated in a sophisticated theoretical discourse.Keenan, John P. (1993). Yogācarā. pp.203 published in Yoshinori, Takeuchi; with Van Bragt, Jan; Heisig, James W.; O'Leary, Joseph S.; Swanson, Paul L.(1993). Buddhist Spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Early Chinese. New York, USA: The Crossroad Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8245-1277-4
Yogācārins developed an Abhidharma literature set within a Mahāyāna framework.Peter Harvey, "An Introduction to Buddhism." Cambridge University Press, 1993, page 106.
===Consciousness-only===
One of the main features of Yogācāra philosophy is "Consciousness-only" ("Cittamātra" or "Vijñapti-matra"). That term was used in Tibet and East Asia interchangeably with Yogācāra, although modern scholars believe it is inaccurate to conflate the two terms.
===The Three Natures===
The Yogācārins defined three basic modes by which we perceive our world. These are referred to in Yogācāra as the three natures of perception. They are:
*Parikalpita, literally "fully conceptualized", or Imaginary Nature, wherein things are incorrectly apprehended based on conceptual construction, through attachment and erroneous discrimination.
*Paratantra, literally "other dependent", or Dependent Nature, by which the correct understanding of the dependently originated nature of things is understood.
*Parinispanna, literally "fully accomplished", or Absolute Nature, through which one apprehends things as they are in themselves, uninfluenced by any conceptualization at all.
Also, regarding perception, the Yogācārins emphasized that our everyday understanding of the existence of external objects is problematic, since in order to perceive any object (and thus, for all practical purposes for the object to "exist"), there must be a sensory organ as well as a correlative type of consciousness to allow the process of cognition to occur.
===Eight Consciousnesses===
Perhaps the best known teaching of the Yogācāra system is that of the eight layers of consciousness (Sanskrit: Aṣṭa Vijñāna). This theory of the consciousnesses attempted to explain all the phenomena of cyclic existence, including how rebirth occurs and precisely how karma functions on an individual basis. For example, if I carry out a good or evil act, why and how is it that the effects of that act do not appear immediately? If they do not appear immediately, where is this karma waiting for its opportunity to play out?
The answer given by the Yogācārins, those that hold to the tenets of Yogācāra, was the store consciousness (also
known as the basal, or eighth consciousness; Sanskrit: Ālayavijñāna) which simultaneously acts as a storage place for karma and as a fertile matrix that brings karma to a state of fruition. It may be ultimately traceable to the "luminous mind" of the agamas. The likeness of this process to the cultivation of plants led to the creation of the metaphor of seeds (Sanskrit: bīja) to explain the way karma is stored in the eighth consciousness. The Ālayavijñāna houses the karmic bīja that "seed" our experience of reality and "perfume" our worldview. The type, quantity, quality and strength of the seeds determine where and how a sentient being will be reborn: one's species, sex, social status, proclivities, bodily appearance and so forth. The Ālayavijñāna and the Tathāgata-garbha doctrine developed and resolved into the Mindstream or the "consciousness-continuity" doctrine (Sanskrit: citta santānaSource: (accessed: November 18, 2007)) to avoid being denounced as running counter to the doctrine of Śūnyatā and the tenets of Anātman.
On the other hand, the karmic energies created in the current lifetime through repeated patterns of behavior are called habit energies (Sanskrit: vasana). All the activities that mold our bodymind, for better or worse—eating, drinking, talking, studying, practicing the piano or whatever—can be understood to create habit energies. And of course, one's habit energies can penetrate the consciousnesses of others, and vice versa—what we call "influence" in everyday language. Habit energies can become seeds, and seeds can produce new habit energies.
According to Walpola Rahula, all the elements of the Yogacara storehouse-consciousness are already found in the Pali Canon.Padmasiri De Silva, Robert Henry Thouless, Buddhist and Freudian Psychology. Third revised edition published by NUS Press, 1992 page 66. He writes that the three layers of the mind ("Citta", "Manas", and "Vijñana") as presented by Asaṅga are also used in the Pali Canon: "Thus we can see that 'Vijñāna' represents the simple reaction or response of the sense organs when they come in contact with external objects. This is the uppermost or superficial aspect or layer of the 'Vijñāna-skandha'. 'Manas' represents the aspect of its mental functioning, thinking, reasoning, conceiving ideas, etc. 'Citta' which is here called 'Ālayavijñāna', represents the deepest, finest and subtlest aspect or layer of the Aggregate of consciousness. It contains all the traces or impressions of the past actions and all good and bad future possibilities."Walpola Rahula, quoted in Padmasiri De Silva, Robert Henry Thouless, Buddhist and Freudian Psychology. Third revised edition published by NUS Press, 1992 page 66, .
===Śūnyatā in Yogācāra===
The doctrine of emptiness (Sanskrit: Śūnyatā) is central to Yogācāra, as to any Mahāyāna school. Early Yogācāra texts, such as the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra and the Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra, often act as explanations on Prajñāpāramitā sūtras. Keenan (2003) holds that Śūnyatā and Pratītyasamutpāda and the theme of "Two Truths" are central in Yogācāra thought and meditation.
As one Buddhologist puts it, "Although meaning 'absence of inherent existence' in Mādhyamaka, to the Yogācārins [śūnyatā] means 'absence of duality between perceiving subject [grāhaka, 'dzin pa] and the perceived object [grāhya, bzhung ba].'"Skilton, Andrew. A Concise History of Buddhism. Windhorse Publications, London:1994. pg 124
This is not the full story however, as each of the three natures (above), has its corresponding "absence of nature". i.e.:
* parikalpita => laksana-nihsvabhavata, the "absence of inherent characteristic"
* paratantra => utpatti-nihsvabhavata, the "absence of inherent arising"
* parinispanna => paramartha-nihsvabhavata, the "absence of inherent ultimacy"
Each of these "absences" is a form of sunyata, i.e. the nature is "empty" of some particular qualified quality.
Yogācāra gave special significance to the agamas' "Lesser Discourse on Emptiness".Gadjin M. Nagao, Madhyamika and Yogachara. Leslie S. Kawamura, translator, SUNY Press, Albany 1991, page 53. A passage there (which the discourse itself emphasizes) is often quoted in later Yogachara texts as a true definition of emptiness.Gadjin M. Nagao, Madhyamika and Yogachara. Leslie S. Kawamura, translator, SUNY Press, Albany 1991, page 200.
==Meditation in the Yogācāra tradition==
As the name of the school suggests, meditation practice was central to the Yogācāra tradition. Practice manuals perscribe the practice of mindfulness of body, feelings, thoughts and dharmas in oneself and others, out of which an understanding of the non-differentiation of self and other is said to arise. This process is referred to in the Yogācāra tradition as "turning about in the basis" (Sanskrit: āśraya-parāvrtti), the basis being the Ālayavijñāna.
==Contemporary scholarship==
Lusthaus (1999) holds that Étienne Lamotte, a famous student of Louis de La Vallée-Poussin, "...profoundly advanced Yogaacaara studies, and his efforts remain unrivaled among Western scholars."Lusthaus, Dan (1999). A Brief Retrospective of Western Yogaacaara Scholarship in the 20th Century. Florida State University. (Presented at the 11th International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 26-31, 1999.) Source: (accessed: November 20, 2007).
===Philosophical dialogue: Yogācāra, Idealism and Phenomenology ===
Yogācāra has also been identified in the Western Philosophical tradition as idealism, or more specifically subjective idealism. This equation was standard until recently, when it began to be challenged by scholars such as Kochumuttom, Anacker, Kalupahana, Dunne, Lusthaus, Powers, and Wayman.Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation by Jay L. Garfield. Oxford University Press: 2001. ISBN 0195146727Dan Lusthaus, What is and isn't Yogacara. .Alex Wayman, A Defense of Yogacara Buddhism. Philosophy East and West, Volume 46, Number 4, October 1996, pages 447-476. "Of course, the Yogacara put its trust in the subjective search for truth by way of a samadhi. This rendered the external world not less real, but less valuable as the way of finding truth. The tide of misinformation on this, or on any other topic of Indian lore comes about because authors frequently read just a few verses or paragraphs of a text, then go to secondary sources, or to treatises by rivals, and presume to speak authoritatively. Only after doing genuine research on such a topic can one begin to answer the question: why were those texts and why do the moderns write the way they do?" Buddhist scholar Jay Garfield continues to uphold the equation of Yogācāra and Idealism.Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation by Jay L. Garfield. Oxford University Press: 2001. ISBN 0195146727 pg 155 Yogācāra has also been aligned with Phenomenalism. In modern Western philosophical discourse, Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty have approached what Western scholarship generally concedes as a standard Yogācāra position.
==The Legacy of the Yogācāra==
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—even the Zen schools. For example, the important Yogācāra explanation of the pervasiveness of one's delusions through "mind-only" had an obvious influence on Zen.
That the scriptural tradition of Yogācāra is not yet that well known among the community of Western practitioners is perhaps attributable to the fact that most of the initial transmission of Buddhism to the West has been directly concerned with more practice-oriented forms of Buddhism, such as Zen, Vipassana, and Pure Land. Also, it is a complicated system, and there are still not really any good, accessible, introductory books on the topic in Western languages. However, within Tibetan Buddhism more and more Western students are becoming acquainted with this school. Very little research in English has been carried out on the Chinese Yogācāra traditions.
==Notes==
==See also==
*Thirty Verses on Consciousness-only
*Cheng Weishi Lun ( Doctrine of Mere-Consciousness )
==References==
* Zim, Robert (1995). Basic ideas of Yogacara Buddhism. San Francisco State University. Source: (accessed: October 18, 2007).
* Shantarakshita & Ju Mipham (2005) The Adornment of the Middle Way Padmakara Translation of Ju Mipham's commentary on Shantarakshita's root versus on his synthesis.
* Norbu, Namkhai (2001). The Precious Vase: Instructions on the Base of Santi Maha Sangha. Shang Shung Edizioni. Second revised edition. (Translated from the Tibetan, edited and annotated by Adriano Clemente with the help of the author. Translated from Italian into English by Andy Lukianowicz.)
*Keenan, John P. (1993). Yogācarā. pp. 203-212 published in Yoshinori, Takeuchi; with Van Bragt, Jan; Heisig, James W.; O'Leary, Joseph S.; Swanson, Paul L.(1993). Buddhist Spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Early Chinese. New York, USA: The Crossroad Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8245-1277-4
==External links==
* The Yogacara Network, featuring many scholarly articles and translations
* "Early Yogaacaara and Its Relationship with the Madhyamaka School", Richard King, Philosophy East & West, vol. 44 no. 4, October 1994, pp. 659–683
* "Vijnaptimatrata and the Abhidharma context of early Yogacara", Richard King, Asian Philosophy, vol. 8 no. 1, March 1998, pp. 5–18
* "The mind-only teaching of Ching-ying Hui-Yuan" (subtitle) "An early interpretation of Yogaacaara thought in China", Ming-Wood Liu, Philosophy East & West, vol. 35 no. 4, October 1985, pp. 351–375
* Yogacara Buddhism Research Association; articles, bibliographies, and links to other relevant sites.
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