Vijnapti-matrata-siddhi
work by Vasubandhu
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contribution to Indian philosophy
- In Indian philosophy: Contributions of Vasubandhu and Asanga
…the Yogachara, Vasubandhu wrote the Vijnapti-matrata-siddhi (“Establishment of the Thesis of Cognitions—Only”), in which he defended the thesis that the supposedly external objects are merely mental conceptions. Yogachara idealism is a logical development of Sautrantika representationism: the conception of a merely inferred external world is not satisfying. If consciousness is…
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