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Vijñapti-m
tra
.

The doctrine of ‘mere imagining’ or ‘thought only’ associated with the
Vijñ
nav
da
school of Buddhist idealism. According to this teaching the empirical world of objects is regarded as the product of pure ideation, with no reality beyond the consciousness of the perceiving subject. In terms of the doctrine of Vijñapti-m
tra, enlightenment is the realization of the imaginary status of phenomena and the non-substantiality of the self and external objects.

 
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(Skt.,
vi
+
kl
p
, ‘variation’, ‘diversity’). In Buddhist philosophy, the imaginative tendency of unenlightened minds. The P
li term
vikappa
is not used in a technical sense in the
Tripi
aka
of the
Sthavirav
dins
, but it is common in
Mah
y
na
philosophical works, particularly of the Yog
c
ra (
Vijñ
nav
da
) variety. The
Abhisamay
la
k
ra
considers both ‘subjectivity’ (
gr
haka