The Summary of the Great Vehicle (攝大乘論)

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Chen · by 無著菩薩造 · Source text translated by 真諦

26,800 · about 89 min

The Treatise on the Mahāyāna-saṃgraha is a pivotal work of the Indian Mahāyāna Yogācāra school, composed by the Bodhisattva Asaṅga and translated into Chinese during the Chen dynasty of the Southern Dynasties by the Tripiṭaka Master Paramārtha. It systematically expounds the "Chapter on the Compendium of the Mahāyāna" from the Abhidharma-mahāyāna-sūtra, elucidating the Consciousness-Only doctrine and establishing a theoretical framework centered on the ālayavijñāna (storehouse consciousness). The treatise explores the principle that all phenomena are consciousness-only, the stages of practice, and the state of Buddhahood, laying the doctrinal foundation for the Vijñānavāda school. Revered as an essential compendium of Vijñānavāda thought, it has profoundly influenced the development of Chinese Buddhist philosophy and remains