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The term wei shi (literally, consciousness-only), is a tenet of Yogacara, an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology, which flourished within Indian Mahayana Buddhism around the fourth century. It affirms that there is an infinite number of ideas and signals the importance of knowledge as the object of consciousness, in contrast to the more practical realism of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana. Wei shi stresses human intelligence in determining the sense of things and analyzes the main factors in the process of understanding and awareness, as seen through meditative ...