Dive into the idealist interpretation of the Buddha’s teachings with Mark Siderits. In your first lesson, you’ll discover how the Mind-Only School challenges conventional views of existence and reframes perception through the lens of consciousness-only metaphysics. Mark Siderits investigates the fascinating philosophy of Yogācāra, a major Mahāyāna Buddhist school, juxtaposing its idealist tenets with those of the realist Abhidharma schools, analysing the strength of four key pieces of evidence for an external world, and introducing Vasubandhu’s counter-explanations for such evidence.