34.Ashok Chatterjee, The Yogacara Idealism (Delhi,
Varanasi, & Patna: Motilal Banarsidass,1975), p.24.
35.Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy,
(Delhi, Varanasi, and Patna: Motilal Banarsidass,
1975), vol. 1, p. 145. In all fairness it should
be remarked that he based this interpretation on
his study of the La^nkaavataara-suutra, which
contains many extremely idealistic passages and is
not a classical Yogaacaara text, but is only
loosely associated with the school. See note 43
following.
36.T.R.V.Murti, The Central Philosophy of Buddhism
(London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1960), p.316.
37.Edward Conze,Thirty Years of Buddhist Studies
(London: Bruno Cassirer, 1967), p. 78.
P.243
38.James, Meaning, of Truth, p. 106.
39.James, Meaning of Truth, p. 88.
40.James, Essays, p. 49.
41.James, Essays, pp. 50--51.
42.Yogaacaara based its definition of emptiness on a
formula found in the Cu.lasu~n~nata-sutta, to the
effect that emptiness is the "presence of an
absence," which requires the absence of something
and the presence of that from which it is absent.
The sutta gives the examples of a meditation hall
that is empty of elephants and a forest that is
empty of villages. See Gadgin M. Nagao, "What
Remains in `Suunyataa: A Yogaacaara Interpretation
of Emptiness," in Minoru kiyota, ed., Mahaayaana
Buddhist Meditation: Theory and Practice
(Honolulu. Hawaii: University Press of Hawaii,
1978), pp. 67-69 and pages following.
43.Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, trans., The La^nkaavataara