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    The dependent nature and the imaginary nature together explain Yogācāra's conventional reality, while the perfect nature explains Yogācāra's conception of ultimate reality.

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    • 1.The three natures in Yogācāra philosophy are the dependent nature, the imaginary nature, and the perfect nature.
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    • 2.The dependent and imaginary natures provide arguments for the empirical and practical standpoints (vyavahāra) and conventional truth.
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    • 3.The perfect nature provides an argument for ultimate truth.
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    • 1.Candrakīrti's Mādhyamika critique holds that positing vijñaptimātratā as a perfect nature reifies consciousness into a positive ultimate, smuggling in a subtle form of svabhāva.
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    • 2.If the perfect nature is itself a constructed doctrinal category used to explain ultimate truth, then it belongs to the very conventional scaffolding it purports to transcend.
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    • 3.A two-truths framework that grounds ultimate reality in a nature-category is therefore self-undermining by Madhyamaka standards, casting doubt on the clean tripartite assignment.
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    • 1.For Vasubandhu, the dependent nature (paratantra) is already implicated in ultimate reality as the substratum that, when purified, just is the perfect nature (pariniṣpanna).
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    • 2.If the dependent nature partially constitutes ultimate reality through its purified form, it cannot be cleanly assigned to conventional reality alone without collapsing the trisvabhāva distinction.
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    So, as we can see the dependent and the imaginary natures together explain the Yogācāra’s conventional reality and the perfect nature explains its conception of the ultimate reality. The first two natures provide an argument for the Yogācāra’s empirical and practical standpoints (vyavahāra), conventional truth and the third nature an argument for its ultimate truth. Even then the dependent nature alone is conventionally real and the perfect nature alone is ultimately real. By contrast, the imagi
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