Chittamatra
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The term Chittamatra (Skt. Cittamātra; Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་པ་, Semtsampa; Wyl. sems tsam pa), or Mind Only, is used in the following contexts:
- as an alternative name for the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism
- the name of one of the Four tenet systems within Tibetan Buddhism
- the name of a section of the Tibetan Tengyur that contains Chittamatra-related texts (within the section "Sutra Commentary and Philsophy"; see [1])
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Editor's note: It seems like the name "Yogacara" was used more in East Asian Buddhism, while the name Chittamatra was more common in Tibet. To be clarified. |