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The Chittamatra (Skt. Cittamātra; Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་པ་, Semtsampa; Wyl. sems tsam pa) or 'Mind Only' School is a Mahayana school founded by Asanga. Its followers say that all phenomena are merely mind—the all-ground consciousness manifesting as environment, objects and the physical body, as a result of habitual tendencies stored within the all-ground.

Tenets

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:

All the dualistic phenomena of the imputed nature and the mind and mental phenomena of the dependent nature are the deceiving phenomena of delusion, the relative truth. The essence of the dependent nature, which is the naturally luminous consciousness, and the fully established nature, which is the fact that this [i.e., the dependent nature] is empty of the dualistic projections of the imputed nature—comprising the nature of reality and wisdom—are said to be the absolute truth.

Subschools

There are two subschools of Mind Only:

True Aspectarians and
False Aspectarians.

Alternative Translations

Mere Mentalist (Brunnholz)

Internal Links

Yogachara

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-The '''Chittamatra''' (Skt. ''Cittamātra''; Tib. ''semtsampa''; [[Wyl.]] ''sems tsam pa'') or 'Mind Only' School is a [[Mahayana]] school founded by [[Asanga]]. Its followers say that all phenomena are merely mind—the [[all-ground consciousness]] manifesting as environment, objects and the physical body, as a result of habitual tendencies stored within the all-ground.
+The '''Chittamatra''' (Skt. ''Cittamātra''; Tib. [[སེམས་ཙམ་པ་]], ''Semtsampa''; [[Wyl.]] ''sems tsam pa'') or 'Mind Only' School is a [[Mahayana]] school founded by [[Asanga]]. Its followers say that all phenomena are merely mind—the [[all-ground consciousness]] manifesting as environment, objects and the physical body, as a result of habitual tendencies stored within the all-ground.
+==Tenets==
 ===The Three Natures===
+They divide all phenomena into the ‘[[three natures]]’:
+*the [[imputed nature|imputed]] or 'imaginary',
+*the [[dependent nature|dependent]], and
+*the [[truly existent nature|truly established]].
-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|Two Truths]]===
+[[Khenpo Ngakchung]] says:
+:All the dualistic phenomena of the imputed nature and the mind and mental phenomena of the dependent nature are the deceiving phenomena of delusion, the '''[[relative truth]]'''. The essence of the dependent nature, which is the naturally luminous consciousness, and the fully established nature, which is the fact that this [i.e., the dependent nature] is empty of the dualistic projections of the imputed nature—comprising the nature of reality and wisdom—are said to be the '''[[absolute truth]]'''.
-===The Chittamatra View of the Two Truths===
+==Subschools==
+There are two subschools of Mind Only:
+#[[True Aspectarians]] and
+#[[False Aspectarians]].
-[[Khenpo Ngakchung]] says:
+==Alternative Translations==
+*Mere Mentalist (Brunnholz)
-:All the dualistic phenomena of the imputed nature and the mind and mental phenomena of the dependent nature are the deceiving phenomena of delusion, the '''[[relative truth]]'''. The essence of the dependent nature, which is the naturally luminous consciousness, and the fully established nature, which is the fact that this [i.e., the dependent nature] is empty of the dualistic projections of the imputed nature—comprising the nature of reality and wisdom—are said to be the '''[[absolute truth]]'''.
-===Subschools===
+==Internal Links==
-There are two subschools of Mind Only: (1) [[True Aspectarians]] and (2) [[False Aspectarians]].
+*[[Yogachara]]