Great Vehicle One Hundred Dharmas Illuminating Gate Treatise Commentary (大乘百法明門論注)

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Tang · Source text translated by 玄奘　增修慈恩法師解

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**The Great Vehicle Treatise on the Illuminating Gate of the Hundred Dharmas with Commentary** This treatise is a Buddhist śāstra translated and supplemented by the eminent Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang, based on the *Treatise on the Illuminating Gate of the Hundred Dharmas* composed by the Bodhisattva Vasubandhu. It was elucidated by Xuanzang's disciple, the Venerable Master Kuiji (Cien). Composed during the peak of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, this treatise is a fundamental text of the Faxiang (Yogācāra) School. Its contents systematically expound that all dharmas are categorized into five groups and one hundred dharmas, including: the mind dharmas (citta-dharma), mental factors (caitta-dharma), form dharmas (rūpa-dharma), conditioned factors not associated with mind (citta-viprayukta-saṃskāra-dharma), and the unconditioned dharmas (asaṃskṛta-dharma). Its purpose is to illuminate the principle of the selflessness