Vasubandhu · Theology
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.
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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