School of Consciousness-only

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The School of Conscioussness-only (Weishi) is a Buddhist school which corresponds to the Vijnanavada or Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism, which, together with the Doctrine of the Middle Way, represented the two main branches of Mahayana philosophy. Its great teachers in India were Asanga (4th century CE) and Vasubandhu, of about the same period. When Asanga's works were translated into Chinese in the sixth century CE, the school was first known as the Shelun, but eventually it was absorbed into the school of the great Chinese monk, translator, and philosopher Xuanzang. The latter's school was also known as the Dharma-Character (Faxiang) school, after one of the characteristic features of its teaching.