Key Terms/Yogācāra

योगाचार Yogācāra

Yoga-Practice school

རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་

rnal 'byor spyod pa

瑜伽行派

Yuqiexing pai

Sanskrit - School

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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).

In other languages

Tibetan

རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་

rnal 'byor spyod pa

naljor chöpa

Sanskrit

योगाचार

Yogācāra

Chinese

瑜伽行派

Yuqiexing pai

Japanese

瑜伽行

Yugagyō

How translators render it

Yoga-Practice schoolBuddha-nature Standard

Yoga Practice (Practitioner)Karl Brunnhölzl

Yogic PractitionersRichard Barron

one who practices yogaIves Waldo

In the dictionaries

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.

Term type

School

Source language

Sanskrit

Topic

Yogācāra