Different alternative translations for "vijñapti-mātra" have been proposed, such as "representation-only, ideation-only, impressions-only" and "perception-only". Alex Wayman notes that one's interpretation of Yogācāra will depend on how the qualifier "mātra" is to be understood in this context, and he objects to interpretations which claim that Yogācāra rejects the external world altogether, preferring translations such as "amounting to mind" or "mirroring mind" for "citta-mātra". For Wayman, what this doctrine means is that "the mind has only a report or representation of what the sense organ had sensed." The representationalist interpretation is also supported by Stefan Anacker and Thomas A. Kochumuttom, modern translators of Vasubandhu's works. According to Thomas Kochumuttom, Yogācāra is a "realistic pluralism". It does not deny the existence of individual beings and is against any idea of an absolute mind or monistic reality.