A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.166

v2.c19.s6.t4.166

Just as the Prajñā-Pāramitās proclaim first and foremost the Śūnyavāda, the doctrine of unreality, the Saddharma-Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra, "the Revelation of the Good Religion in Laṅkā (Ceylon)," generally called briefly Laṅkāvatāra,³ teaches principally a modification of the Śūnyavāda, the Vijñānavāda, the "Doctrine of Consciousness," *i.e.*, that doctrine which, though it also denies the reality of the external world, does at the same time recognise that the phenomena of consciousness have a subjective reality.