Vasubandhu · Theology

Representation-Only

In the <em>Twenty Verses</em>, Vasubandhu argues that the objects we take to be an outer world are representations of consciousness - and answers, one by one, every objection that experience must be caused by things outside the mind.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses defends vijnaptimatra (representation-only), that he uses the dream analogy to show experience can be vivid and orderly without outer objects, that he answers the objections from spatial-temporal regularity, shared experience, and causal efficacy by appeal to the ripening of…

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