"Cheng Weishi Lun Jiaoshi"

Author: (Tang) Xuanzang translated, Han Tingjie revised and translated
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Publishing Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Buddhism is one of the world's three major religions. It began to spread to China around the Ming Emperor period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but did not have a significant impact at the time. During the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties period, Buddhism combined with metaphysics and achieved widespread and in-depth dissemination. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Chinese Buddhism took the path of independent development, forming numerous sects and exerting profound influence on many aspects of society, politics, culture, and especially in the field of philosophical thought. During Xuanzang's time in India, he mainly studied Yogacara (Consciousness-Only). After returning to China, his translation and dissemination were also primarily focused on Yogacara, becoming the founder of the Yogacara school in the Tang Dynasty. After translating the Thirty Verses on Consciousness-Only, he wanted to translate the annotations of the ten masters one by one. However, doing so would have been too cumbersome, resulting in hundreds of volumes and millions of words. Moreover, the viewpoints of some of the ten masters were not entirely consistent, leaving people uncertain about who was right or wrong and making it difficult to decide. Therefore, his disciple Kuiji suggested taking the views of Haribhadra as the main focus, while incorporating the theories of the other nine masters. Xuanzang accepted his suggestion and translated the Ten Volumes of the Complete Treatise on Consciousness-Only in the fourth year of the Xianqing era (AD 655).