རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་སྨྲ་བ། | Glossary of Terms

རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་སྨྲ་བ།

rnam par shes pa smra ba

vijñānavāda

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Vijñānavāda

The Teaching of Vimalakīrti

Vijñānavāda

རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་སྨྲ་བ།

rnam par shes pa smra ba

vijñānavāda

Definition in this text:

The school of “Consciousness-Only” founded by Maitreya and Āryāsaṅga, which shares with the Mādhyamika most of the philosophical techniques of the Mahāyāna, while differing on the interpretation of the profound meaning of voidness, or the ultimate reality.

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