Dharmapala’s Developments And Solution Towards The Standpoint Of Nāma-mātra

Through the critique of svabhāva,Nagarjuna perfected and compiled the Nāmamātraview of Mahāprajāpāramitā-sūtra.Nagarjuna’s perfection and arrangement of Mahāprajāpāramitā-sūtra shaped the overall thinking of Mahayana Buddhism.On the one hand,Nāma-mātra implies a refutation of traditional realism,on the one hand,it leads to the division of the known object and the subject of knowledge.The question of whether or not the existing beings existed has thus become the focus of debate between Mādhyamaka and Yogācāra.This paper chooses Dharmapala’s An Interpretation of Mahayana Theoryas as the research object to study the deepening and solution of this problem.Dharmapala’s attitude towards the standpoint of Nāma-mātra is twofold.On the one hand,he inherits Nagarjuna’s critical perspective on realism and emphasizes the rebuttal of "reality" in his thinking.On the other hand,he further pondered the thought turn caused by the actual analysis of this problem.This dichotomy logically preserves the existence of the known object,and also completes the construction of the Indian-style subject philosophy Theory of Vijnapti-matrata.