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Cittamatra or Vijnanavada is a unique school of thought that developed within the philosophical systems of Buddhism, whose central notion is based on the primacy of the mind. It propounds a system advocating that no external things exist as entities separate or distinct from the observing mind.
The Chittamatra (Skt. Cittamātra; Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་པ་, Semtsampa, Wyl. sems tsam pa) or 'Mind Only' School is a Mahayana school founded by Asanga in the 4th century AD.
Yogācāra (Sanskrit: “yoga practice”), also spelled yogāchāra, is an influential school of philosophy and psychology that developed in Indian Mahayana Buddhism starting sometime in the fourth to fifth centuries C.E., also commonly known as Consciousness-only (Sanskrit: Cittamātra).
Yogachara ( Sanskrit: योगाचार, IAST: Yogācāra) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā).
The term Chittamatra (Skt. Cittamātra; Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་པ་, Semtsampa; Wyl. sems tsam pa ), or Mind Only, is used in the following contexts: as an alternative name for the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. the name of one of the Four tenet systems within Tibetan Buddhism.
The Three Natures. They divide all phenomena into the ‘ three natures ’: the imputed or ' imaginary ', the dependent, and. the truly established. The Chittamatra View of the Two Truths. Khenpo Ngakchung says:
Cittamātra - Buddha-Nature. Mind-Only. चित्तमात्र. སེམས་ཙམ་. Basic Meaning. Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school.
