Abhidharma Teaching of the Mahāyānasaṃgrāha of Yogācāra School (Mahāyānasaṃgrāha-śāstra) - Paperback

Mahāyānasaṃgrāha-śāstra, by patriarch Venerable Asaṅga, is an important Abhidharma treatise of the Yogācāra school of the Indian Mahāyāna tradition, as well as the Dharmalakṣaṇa denomination or Vij?ānavāda of the Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism. The ten Chapters of the text encompass elucidation of all core principles of the Mahāyāna teachings, including ālayavij?āna, manasvij?āna, their relationship with the six sense-cognitions, the three inherent natures of realities, the nature of mere-conscious-constructions, meditational insight, practice of the ten pāramitā ways, the ten stages of Bodhisattvas' cultivation, types of nirvāṇa, realisation and fruitions of the Buddha-hood.