Indian Buddhist philosopher who wrote the Abhidharmakosa (treasury of higher doctrine) and co-founded the Yogacara (mind-only) school — arguing that what we experience as external reality is in fact constructed by consciousness — making him the Buddhist parallel to Kant's transcendental idealism.
Developed the Yogacara thesis that all experience is consciousness-only (vijnanavada) — there are no external objects, only the consciousness that represents them — and the storehouse consciousness (alaya-vijnana) as the repository of karmic seeds that generate experience.
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