Also called Yogācāra, this philosophical school of the Mahāyāna asserts the self-cognizing mind as the ultimate reality and identifies emptiness as the absence of the subject-object dualism that overspreads and obscures the underlying pure consciousness. Although this school is usually traced back to Asaṅga and his brother Vasubandhu (fourth century C.E.), who base themselves on the scriptures of the third turning of the Dharma wheel, such as the Sandhinirmochana-sutra, the Cittamātra, as a tenet system, is more accurately associated with the sixth century master Dharmapāla. [IMW, 2004]

lit. the upholders of "mind-only." Followers of the Cittamātra (also called the Yogācāra) philosophy of the Mahāyāna , which asserts the self-cognizing mind as the ultimate reality and identifies śūnyatā, or emptiness, as the absence of the subject-object dualism that overspreads and obscures the underlying pure consciousness. The Cittamātra or Yogācāra school was founded by Asaṅga and his brother Vasubandhu (fourth century), who base themselves on the scriptures of the third turning of the Dharma wheel, such as the Sandhinirmochana-sutra. [TPQ, 2010]

lit. “mind-only.” .The teaching that the objects of the senses do not exist outside the mind and are simply projections of the mind. This doctrine was propagated in particular by the followers of the Yogācāra school. Its proponents are known as Cittamātrin (Tib. sems tsam pa).[OMS, 2018]

Also called “Yogāchārin.” A follower of the Mind-Only philosophical school of the Great Vehicle, based on the teachings of Asaṅga.[NS]