Packet 8: Bonus 18

This thinker argued against a Sarvāstivāda monk by bringing up a patient who perceives a net of hairs, but is actually deceived by his eye disease. For 10 points each:
[10h] What Buddhist philosopher is considered one of the founders of the Yogachara school with his brother Asanga? This monk presented vijñapti-mātra (“vij-NYAHP-tee-MAH-trah”), or “appearance-only” metaphysics in Twenty Verses on Consciousness Only.
ANSWER: Vasubandhu [or Shìqīn]
[10e] Vasubandhu’s “appearance-only” metaphysics has been called an idealist approach to this field of philosophy, which asks questions about the nature of knowledge and how things can be known.
ANSWER: epistemology [or word forms like epistemic; accept epistemological idealism]
[10m] Yogachara philosophers denied that these momentary phenomena existing in causal chains were non-mental. A 3rd-century BC set of Buddhist texts were named for being “abhi-” or “higher teaching” on these concepts.
ANSWER: dharmas [or dhamma; accept Abhidharma]
<Editors, Philosophy> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaCambridge010010E
BrownUC Berkeley B1010020HE
BruinMichigan010010E
Chicago AWashU10101030HEM
HarvardOhio State0101020EM
Maryland ANYU B010010E
Maryland BUCLA010010E
PittsburghMIT010010E
RutgersNorth Carolina010010E
Stanford BIllinois A010010E
TexasGeorgia Tech A010010E
Toronto AGeorgia Tech B010010E
Toronto BNorthwestern A0101020EM
VanderbiltNorthwestern B010010E
Virginia TechPenn State010010E
WaterlooIndiana010010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓1613.13100%19%13%