It still remained, however, to account for a common world which in fact remains the main difficulty of Yogachara. |
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According to Dan Lusthaus, Madhyamaka and Yogachara have a great deal in common, and the commonality stems from early Buddhism. |
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The Yogachara Buddhist view that there are no external objects but only minds and their conceptions is refuted, as also the Buddhist doctrine of the momentariness of all that is. |
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It is based mainly on the rigorous intellectual disciplines of Madhyamika and Yogachara philosophy and utilizes the Tantric ritual practices that developed in Central Asia and particularly in Tibet. |
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In India, the two main philosophical schools of the Mahayana were the Madhyamaka and the later Yogachara. |
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