Compendium Of The Mahayana eBook

The first complete English translation of Asanga''s Mahayanasamgraha, the most important and comprehensive Indian Yogacara text, and all its available Indian commentaries.

The Mahynasagraha, published here with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries in three volumes, presents virtually everything anybody might want to know about the Yogcra School of mahyna Buddhism. It discusses in detail the nature and operation of the eight kinds of consciousness, the often-misunderstood notion of "mind only" (cittamtra), dependent origination, the cultivation of the path and its fruition in terms of the four wisdoms, and the three bodies (kyas) of a buddha.

Volume 1 presents the translation of the Mahynasagraha along with a commentary by Vasubandhu. The introduction gives an overview of the text and its Indian and Tibetan commentaries, and explains in detail two crucial elements of the Yogcra view: the laya-consciousness and the afflicted mind (kliamanas).

Volume 2 presents translations of the commentary by Asvabhva and an anonymous Indian commentary on the first chapter of the text. These translations are supplemented in the endnotes by excerpts from Tibetan commentaries and related passages in other Indian and Chinese Yogcra works.

Volume 3 includes appendices with excerpts from other Indian and Chinese Yogcra texts and supplementary materials on major Yogcra topics in the Mahynasagraha.