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Yogācāra

The “practice of yoga” school, which analyses experience as consciousness and its transformations.

Also: Yogacara, Vijnanavada, Mind-Only

Mahāyāna, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism

Yogācāra, founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu in the fourth century, teaches that what we experience as an external world is the manifestation of consciousness. It analyses eight kinds of consciousness, including the storehouse consciousness, and three natures of experience, and describes liberation as a transformation of the basis.