The '''Chittamatra''' (Skt. ''Cittamātra''; Tib. [[སེམས་ཙམ་པ་]], ''Semtsampa'', [[Wyl.]] ''sems tsam pa'') or 'Mind Only' School is a [[Mahayana]] school founded by [[Asanga]] in the 4th century AD. Its followers say that all phenomena are merely mind (Skt. ''vijñaptimātra'')—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]] in the 4th century AD.
This school is also known under the names of '''[[Yogachara]]''', '''Vijñānavāda''' and '''Vijñānaptimātra'''.
This school is also known under the names of '''[[Yogachara]]''', '''Vijñānavāda''' and '''Vijñānaptimātra'''.
==Canonical Literature==
For the main article, see [[Yogachara]].
===Sutras===
*[[Avatamsaka Sutra]]
*[[Lankavatara Sutra]]
*[[Samadhiraja Sutra]]
*[[Samdhinirmochana Sutra]]
===Shastras===
*[[Thirty Stanzas]]
*[[Treatise on the Three Natures]]
*[[Twenty Stanzas]]
==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]].
===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 (Skt. Cittamātra; Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་པ་, Semtsampa, Wyl.sems tsam pa) or 'Mind Only' School is a Mahayana school founded by Asanga in the 4th century AD.
This school is also known under the names of Yogachara, Vijñānavāda and Vijñānaptimātra.
