Outline of Yogacara-Bhumi Sastra: Chinese readers only!

[Leo Rivers]

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http://www.amazon.com/dp/1453616187/ref=rdr_ext_tmb[/url]

There seems to be a whole series of these
in Chinese

for English speakers like mysef GOTO --> http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/outlines/YBh-summary-utf8.htm




Outline of Yogacara-Bhumi Sastra - 1: Brief Buddhist Tripitaka V14-B01-001-OCT (Chinese Edition : : ) [Paperback]
Victor Chiang (Author)


Outline of volumn 1-10 of Yogacarabhumi Sasta which was translated by Rev. Xuan Zhuang ( 600-664) from India's Sanskrit to Chinese in Tang Dynasty . The Sastra have 100 volumns , it is the major text book for Yagocara or Consciousness only school of Chinese Buddhism which was established by Master Xuan Zhuang and his eminent student Rev. Kuiji in China .

About the Author
Founder and president of Buddhist Tripitaka Foundation;Director of International Buddhist Tripitaka Translation Center;Researcher of Deptof Religious Studies at Peking University;Visiting Professor of Central Min Zhu University at Beijing, and etc.

[do1]

I wonder why they need outline in Chinese if original book is in Chinese too.

My long wish that Yogacarabhumi books are transalted completely in English. But it seem so hard task that it's not happened yet.

[Greg]

My long wish that Yogacarabhumi books are transalted completely in English. But it seem so hard task that it's not happened yet.

Yes, Leo kindly put together a summary of where that stands these days: http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=7714

[hide2may]

Hi, We have started working on the English translation.
Please check these out →
http://buddhavacana.net/yogacarabhumi-sastra/ch20-cultivation/
http://blog.yahoo.com/amituo/articles/669654
Cheers~

[Leo Rivers]

Delightful, and really put a smile on my face. - The comments were really intriguing too.

This chapter by itself is in my opinion quite self-contained, but the reader would benefit even more if taken together with the other chapters in the Yogacara Bumi Sastra. With various quotes from the Agamas, it pieces together the appropriate practices and reflections needed at different stages.

I am guessing that this

Below is the English translation of the chapter "本地分中修所成地第十二 The Twelfth Main Stage: Foundation of Actualization of Cultivation".

AKA

瑜伽師地論科句披尋記卷第二 Yogācārabhūmi- śāstra (Topic-outline and commentary) Chapter Twenty
本地分中修所成地第十二 The Twelfth Main Stage: Stage of Actualization of Cultivation3

is equivalent to this from the Summary of the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra 瑜伽師地論 [http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/outlines/YBh-summary-utf8.htm]:

(12) The state of actualizing what one has practiced - bhāvanā-bhūmi 修所成地. (fascicle 20)

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This seems to be a survey of the path as a pocket map in the middle of the encyclopaedia of the path, and distinct from the implied progression of the last three Bhumis, Stravaka, Prayekabuddha and Bodhisattava.


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