Yogācāra / Cittamātra
A living tradition within Mahāyāna. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Yogācāra / Cittamātra is a living tradition within Mahāyāna. Also written Mind-only school, Vijñānavāda, Faxiang (China), Hossō (Japan).
Origin
Founders named in the sources: Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, (traditionally also Maitreya). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Neumaier dates the emergence of Cittamātra to the 4th century CE and notes the school is attributed variously to Asaṅga, Vasubandhu or Maitreya. McRae records the Chinese institutional form, Faxiang, as founded by Xuanzang (600?–664) and Ci'en (632–682); Araki records the Japanese form, Hossō, as transmitted by Dōshō and based on Dharmapāla's Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi, one of the six Nara schools.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Yogācāra / Cittamātra.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-yogacara-cittamatra.
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