| Key Term |
Yogācāra |
| Hover Popup Choices |
Yogācāra; Yogachara; rnal 'byor spyod pa |
| Featured People |
Asaṅga, Vasubandhu |
| In Tibetan Script |
རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration |
rnal 'byor spyod pa |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script |
योगाचार |
| Romanized Sanskrit |
Yogācāra |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering |
naljor chöpa |
| Chinese Script |
瑜伽行派 |
| Chinese Pinyin |
Yuqiexing pai |
| Japanese Script |
瑜伽行 |
| Japanese Transliteration |
Yugagyō |
| English Standard |
Yoga-Practice school |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term |
Yoga Practice (Practitioner) |
| Richard Barron's English Term |
Yogic Practitioners |
| Ives Waldo's English Term |
one who practices yoga |
| Term Type |
School |
| Source Language |
Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning |
Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). |
| Definitions |
| Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism |
See pp. 1033–34. In Sanskrit, “Practice of Yoga” ; one of the two major Mahāyāna philosophical schools (along with Madhyamaka) in India, known especially for its doctrines of “mind-only” (cittamātra) or “representation-only” (vijñaptimātratā), the trisvabhāva, and the ālayavijñāna. In addition, much of the exposition of the structure of the Mahāyāna path (mārga) and of the Mahāyāna ABHIDHARMA derives from this school. The texts of the school were widely influential in Tibet and East Asia. |