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objects. He based his findings on the subjective criticism of the sense-data and propounded the Vijñaptimātratādoctrine in the realm of Buddhist thinking?. He accepted the dharmakāya of the Buddha as his Trancendent body and identical with the dharma, as anāsrava and inconceivable (acintya)?.
It has further been suggested that the Yogācāra system also accepted the dharma-theory of the Sautrāntikas with certain modifications. Later on the number of these dharmas was raised to hundred and Vasubandhu wrote a treatise enumerating these dharmas (Šatadharmavidyāmukhaṁ).
While the Mādhyamika concept of Sūnyatā and its view-point regarding the Transcendent Truth (paramārtha-satya) have influenced the Absolutist standpoint of Asanga's philosophy, the methodology of the Yogācāra system has been developed under the influence of the Mādhyamika dialectics. This influence of the Mādhyamika dialectics can be witnessed in the codified verses of the MSA, the dialectical exposition of the Yogācāra tenets in the MVS and AA of Arya Maitreyanātha as well as in the Vajracchedikā-commentary of Arya
1. cp. MSAB, VII.4-a, IX.78, XI. 19-30, IX.56-9, XI.48, XIX.47-58,
VI.1 sq. and elsewhere; VCPP-comm., Vs. 17 sq. 2. MSAB, X1.60-2; AA, VIII.1, 11 etc.; cp. f791447a; VCPP
comm., Vs. 63, 45, 53 etc. 3. cp. MK, XVIII.6 sq.; MSAB, VIII.1, and elsewhere in the $Bh.
and Bodhi.
