UCC ID: UCCIK-86874

NCC ID: UCCIK-22.065a.4

Name Of The Text: योगचर्याभूमि (Yogacaryābhūmi)

Name Of The Author: असङ्ग(Asaṅga)

Total Manuscripts: 3

Subject: Bud. 

Language: -

Details Of The Text: or Yogācārabhūmisūtra or °śāstra or Saptadaśabhūmiśāśtra. Bud. addressed by Bodhisattva Maitreya to Asaṅga. A basic text of the HOSSO. sect. of Buddhism in Japan. Chinese tradition ascribes the text to Mitreyanātha. The five divisions of this text are (1) Bahubhūmikavastu, (2) Nirṇaya (or Viniścaya) Saṅgraha, (3) Vastusaṅgraha, (4) Paryāyasaṅgraha (5) Vivaraṇasaṅgraha or Vyākhyāna°. For a study of the Yogācāra school, see The Yogācāra Idealism by R. C. Chatterjee, Benares Hindu University Darśana Ser. 3, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi, 1962. Ptd. Pt. I. University of Calcutta, 1957. Pkt. text compared with Tibetan version.

Details Of The Author: (4th cent.), brother of Vasubandhu. ref to by Levi, BMFJ. I. i. 33. 49.