[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s6.t4.166 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.166 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.166 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t4.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.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. - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t4.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.165) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t4.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.167) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4) ## Cites (2) - [Laṅkāvatārasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.tathagatagarbha.lankavatara) — Sanskrit - [Prajñāpāramitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.166) · Pramāṇa