Vijñānavāda

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Vijñānavāda [alt. Vijñānavādin] (T. rnam par shes pa smra ba རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་སྨྲ་བ་; C. weishi zong) is an alternate designation for the Yogacara school.[1]

Vijñānavāda is translated as:

  • "proponents of consciousness,"[1]
  • “consciousness-affirming,”[2]
  • etc.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Vijñānavāda
  2. ↑ Prajñapti (Encyclopedia Britannica)
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