Consciousness Only School
Or Yogacara School

- Old Wisdom School to New Wisdom School
- Meaning of Prajna, Prajnaparamita tradition, Prajnaparamitahrdaya Sutra
- Nagarjna in Third Century A.D. Negation and affirmation Middle point Madyamika school
- Nirvan as emptiness (sunyata) Nirvana and samsara are identical

- New School in opposition to and / or in support of Madyamika School
- Vajnamatra Consciouness only ;school or Yoga cara School
- Source Lankavatara Sutra Ryogakyo

3 Chinese and 2 Tibetan translation
Later exponent of the school is Asanga and Vasubandhu
- Lanka is SriLanka, Ceyron..But it looks more like Himalaya, but Mt Hilaya Buddha appears from Naga world to Lanka world where the king Ravana is Reigning. They ride up Mt Hilaya. In the end only Buddha exists. Then Buddha laughs.

- Concentration on one point (ekagra)leads to the unity of conscuouness and the object of consciousness. It is only consciousness existing.
- The removal of the subject object dichotomy = the identity of nirvana samsara
- Concept of alyaavijnana Store consciousness
- Concept of Bodhigarbha garba womb bija seeds

Three bodies of Buddha
1. dharma body
2. sambhoga-kaya Enjoymentbody
3. nirmana-kaya Transformation body=historical buddha

The Vijñanavada (Consciousness Only) school maintained that consciousness alone is real. Vijñanavada first arose in India about the 4th century and was taken to China two centuries later by Chinese monk and pilgrim Xuanzang (Hsuan-tsang). A Japanese disciple, Dosho, who arrived to study with him in 653, conveyed it to Japan. A native Chinese Mahayana school, Avatamsaka (Huayan in Chinese), was established in the 7th century by Chinese monk Dushun around a Chinese translation of its basic text, the Avatamsaka Sutra (Garland Sutra). The school reached Korea in the late 7th century, and between 725 and 740 was carried to Japan, where it was known as Kegon. Another important Chinese school, the Tiantai (Tendai in Japanese), was founded by Chinese monk Zhiyi, who organized the entire Buddhist canon around the cardinal Mahayana scripture, the Saddharmapundarika Sutra (Lotus Sutra). This school became very influential in China and Korea, and also in Japan, where it served as a means for introducing Pure Land doctrines.