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Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra

Mahāyāna · Yogācāra

Original study guide

Original study summary; not a complete translation.

This scripture addresses the interpretation of Buddhist teaching, the nature of experience and the path of practice.

It is important for Yogācāra accounts of how experience is misconstrued and how distinctions within teaching should be understood.

Ideas concerning three natures distinguish imagined constructions, dependent processes and the absence of the imagined in the dependent. Interpretations vary.

The point is not captured by the slogan that nothing outside your personal mind exists. It connects analysis with transforming misperception.

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