Yogacara

Vijñanavada ( awareness teaching), also Cittamatra ( mind-only ) or Yogācāra called ( yoga practice ), is a founded by Asanga and Vasubandhu about the 4th century philosophical school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The central teaching of this school means that all observable phenomena arise only on the basis of the mind and are without substance as such. As a result, all perceptions are classified as mental projections.

According to the teaching of Vijñanavada not all things consist in the sense of manifest reality, but only as a mental phenomena of consciousness ( Vijnana ). In the thoughts and ideas we create a supposedly "real" world, but in reality is only in the creative imagination of the viewer. Everything is consciousness, only mind ( citta ) (Latin esse est percipi ) and not really. Therefore the things comes to no Eigensein, no actual reality. The world is no more than a mental construction, thus only dream of, not being. But not ones being is also the dreamer ( I ), because the world is only a dream, then the dreamer ( I ) is only a dream. With this conception of Vijñanavada represents a consistent idealism.

The school of thought Vijñanavada went out in India with the decline of Buddhism in his home country in the 12th century. However, some elements continue to live in the Chinese Faxiang, the Japanese Hosso Shuu and the Tibetan Vajrayana.

Together with the Madhyamaka has been able to penetrate the thinking of the Mahāyāna deep as no other system of Vijñanavada.