The Silk Road Journey With Xuanzang by Wriggins Sally

Author:Wriggins, Sally [Wriggins, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

In between his explorations in and around Khotan, Xuanzang engaged in a kind of teaching marathon. Over one twenty-four-hour period he lectured to the king and his people on his old favorites, the Treatise on the Stages of Yoga Practice and the Treasury of Buddhist Philosophy, written by Vasubandhu when he was still a realist of the Hinayana school, and a famous compendium of Mahayana philosophy translated by Paramartha in 562 C.E. Xuanzang had studied all of these years before when he was a very young monk in Chengdu. He also lectured on a fourth commentary, which Waley describes as being “the one with the unmanageably long name,” which the Chinese call Tui-fa (Abidharma) . 32

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