Cittamātra

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Buddhist doctrine Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophical school Yogācāra tradition

Cittamātra is a major Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophical school that teaches reality is fundamentally mind-only, with external phenomena understood as mental projections.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Buddhist doctrine ⓘ Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophical school ⓘ Yogācāra tradition ⓘ
alternativeName	Mind-Only school NERFINISHED ⓘ Vijñānavāda NERFINISHED ⓘ Yogācāra NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedConcept	paratantra-svabhāva (dependent nature) ⓘ parikalpita-svabhāva (imagined nature) ⓘ pariniṣpanna-svabhāva (perfected nature) ⓘ tathāgatagarbha (Buddha-nature) NERFINISHED ⓘ trisvabhāva (three natures) ⓘ vijñapti-mātra (representation-only) ⓘ ālaya-vijñāna ⓘ
contrastedWith	Madhyamaka NERFINISHED ⓘ
coreTeaching	absence of external, independently existing matter ⓘ all phenomena are mind-only ⓘ consciousness is primary ⓘ external objects are mental projections ⓘ storehouse consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) ⓘ three natures theory ⓘ
debatedWith	Madhyamaka school NERFINISHED ⓘ
developedIn	India NERFINISHED ⓘ
goal	cessation of cognitive distortions ⓘ realization of the perfected nature ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Gupta period NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Chinese Faxiang school NERFINISHED ⓘ East Asian Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Japanese Hossō school NERFINISHED ⓘ Korean Beopsang school ⓘ Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy	Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra NERFINISHED ⓘ Prajñāpāramitā sūtras NERFINISHED ⓘ Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra NERFINISHED ⓘ Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra NERFINISHED ⓘ
keyFigure	Asaṅga NERFINISHED ⓘ Dharmapāla NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuiji NERFINISHED ⓘ Maitreya-nātha NERFINISHED ⓘ Sthiramati NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasubandhu NERFINISHED ⓘ Xuanzang NERFINISHED ⓘ
philosophicalStance	anti-realism about external objects ⓘ idealism ⓘ non-duality of subject and object ⓘ
regionOfInfluence	China NERFINISHED ⓘ India NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ Tibet NERFINISHED ⓘ
religiousTradition	Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ
subtraditionOf	Mahāyāna Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ
textualSource	Madhyāntavibhāga NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahāyāna-sūtrālaṃkāra NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahāyānasaṃgraha NERFINISHED ⓘ Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā NERFINISHED ⓘ Viṃśatikā-vijñaptimātratā NERFINISHED ⓘ Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra NERFINISHED ⓘ
viewOnEmptiness	emptiness as absence of duality of subject and object ⓘ
viewOnKarma	karmic seeds stored in ālaya-vijñāna ⓘ
viewOnLiberation	purification of consciousness ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yogācāra → alternativeName → Cittamātra ⓘ

Lankāvatāra Sutra → associatedWithSchool → Cittamātra ⓘ

subject surface form: Lankāvatāra Sūtra