Meanings
nounovernegation (uncountable)
- uncountableBuddhismExcessive negation.
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Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind.
1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness, page 80
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