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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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