Gujinming Yao Jie

Author: Shi Shuiyue, written by Xu Disan
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: Shi Shuiyue's Essential Explanations of Ancient Pramana provides detailed explanations of the entire Conventional Mind Treatise, the lesser parts of the Yogacara-bhumi-stra, the lesser parts of the Compendium of Abhidharma Treatises, and the entire Treatise on Reality. The Yogacara-bhumi-stra contains the Treatise on the Elevation of the Holy Teaching, and the Compendium of Abhidharma Treatises contains the Miscellaneous Treatises on Abhidharma. Therefore, it actually includes introductions to six ancient pramana works, making it the only comprehensive work to date that explains and studies ancient pramana. Professor Xu Disan's Pramana Before Chandrakirti: The Madhyamaka and Yogacara Schools is a modern Chinese paper that exclusively discusses the history of pramana. It introduces the development of ancient pramana and provides concise summaries of the pramana thought in the Middle Treatise, Conventional Mind Treatise, Yogacara-bhumi-stra, Compendium of Mahayana Abhidharma Treatises, Middle Treatise, and Treatise on Reality. It also explores new perspectives on a series of pramana principles. Both works are representative contributions to the study of ancient pramana.