Hypothesis (unconfirmed): Yogācāra starts as a term of derision for people who are ultra-focused on meditation; meditators uncover wicked interesting insights, but since most people are unwilling to commit to hardcore meditation, Yogācāra fades away as a distinct methodology...
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Re: early Yogācāra, I gather you're aware that Schmithausen (2007) finds, in the Samāhita-bhūmi, an "initial passage" referring to ālāya-vijñāna in the context of the meditator's emergence from the attainment of cessation (nirodha-samāpatti), which was later formalized (1/2)
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