Early Yogacara and its relationship with the Madhyamaka school.

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: October 1, 1994| Author: King, Richard | Copyright information

The relationship between the early Yogacara school and the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism is difficult to determine. Although they were clearly concerned with distinguishing emptiness from nihilism, early Yogacarins such as Asanga and Vasubandhu may have been reformulating Madhyamaka thought to correct nihilistic interpretations or they may have been criticising nihilism within the Madhyamaka school. Thus, the polemical relation between the two schools that existed in the sixth centur...

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