Vijnanavadin, Vijñānavādin: 4 definitions
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Vijñānavādin (विज्ञानवादिन्).—a member of the well-known Buddhist school of this name: Mahāvyutpatti 5145.
1) Vijñānavādin (विज्ञानवादिन्):—[=vi-jñāna-vādin] [from vi-jñāna > vi-jñā] mfn. one who affirms that only intelligence has reality
2) [v.s. ...] m. a Yogācāra, [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha; Buddhist literature]
Vijñānavādin (विज्ञानवादिन्):—adj. der da behauptet, dass nur die Erkenntniss Realität habe (nicht die Objecte der Aussenwelt), ein Yogācāra [WASSILJEW 289.] vādinaya [SARVADARŚANAS. 19, 13.] vādivāda [117, 4.]
Vijñānavādin (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 唯識宗 [wéi shí zōng]: “Wéishì zōng” [Chinese school name]; Alternatively: “Consciousness-only” [English school name]; Alternatively: “Yusik jong” [Korean school name]; Alternatively: “Citta-mātrin”; “Vijñānavādin” [Sanskrit school name]; Alternatively: “sems tsam pa” [Tibetan school name].
2) 唯識論者 [wéi shí lùn zhě]: “advocate of consciousness-only”.
Note: vijñānavādin can be alternatively written as: vijñāna-vādin.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Vijnana.
Full-text: Wei shi lun zhe, Vinnanavati, sems tsam pa, Duy thuc tong, Udayana, Cittamatrin, Wei shi zong, Kevala, Vijnana, Bodhamatra, Vasanaprabodha, Bauddhadarshana.
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IV. The auxiliairies in the mahāyāna < [Note on the Thirty-seven Auxiliaries to Enlightenment]
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