Where is the example of the illusory elephant first articulated in Yogācāra philosophy? Vasubandhu gestures to it in his commentary on the MSG; and I feel like I’ve read it in Asaṇga, but I can’t remember where...
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Matthew Kapstein has a pretty compelling argument for the claim that this is a relatively late text, and not from within Vasubandhu’s workshop. Vasubandhu does mention the example in his commentary on MsG II.24, but only in passing
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This is a cool paper for thinking about authorship:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10781-017-9334-2 …
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Yup, the story that vasubandhu mentions, and that is discussed in TSN is slightly different. Will post below
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