True Aspectarians 有相唯識派 / 真相唯識派
True Aspectarians (Skt. satyākāravādin; Tib. རྣམ་བདེན་པ་, namdenpa; Wyl. rnam bden pa) are followers of the Chittamatra School who believe in the reality of mental features or aspects (རྣམ་པ་, rnam pa). Mind is therefore divided into two: the apprehended, objective aspect (Tib. བཟུངས་བའི་སེམས་, zungwé sem) and the apprehending, subjective aspect (Tib. འཛིན་པའི་སེམས་, dzinpé sem). They say that the subjective mind is real and the apprehended aspects of mind which appear as external are also real.
Subdivisions
There are three subschools among the True Aspectarians:
- 能取所取等數師 / 二取平等派論師 Proponents of Perceptual Parity,
- 半卵對開師 Half-Eggists and
- 種種無二師 / 雜無二派論師 Proponents of Perceptual Non-Duality
Alternative Translations
- Chittamatrins who hold that sense data are real (LCN)
