The Realism

Mallisena, a Jaina philosopher, elaborates some of the arguments of the Yogācāra and criticizes them in Syādvādamañjari. The Yogācāra holds that mere cognition free from the distinction of subject and object is the only reality. An external object does not exist, since its existence cannot be proved. The non-existence of an external object may be proved by a series of dilemmas.