Shravak Bhoomi

SR No.: 002436
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Karunesha Shukla
Publisher: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute
Total Pages: 618
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 10 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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dant materials on the Buddhist Yoga, the Ābhidharmika practices in the Mahāyāna (Yogācāra) tradition, the Yogācāra doctrines and the religious aspects of the Mahāyāna. ŚBh and BSB form
parts of this work. (ii) MAHAYĀNASAMPARIGRAHAŚĀSTRA : This was a
treatise containing a discussion regarding the chief doctrines and religious standpoints of the Mahāyāna and its contrast with the Hinayāna. It also contained a summary treatment of the essentials of the YBS.
(contd. from p. lxxiv)
1930-36, N. Dutt, Patna, 1966; various other studies and editions in part of the BSB. are available, for references, see Chatterjee, ibid. p. 46, f.n. 3; HIL, II.354-5; Dutt's edition is the latest one; a survey of the various chapters has been presented in ZDMG, 1908, p. 91 sq.; V. Bhattacharya gives a study along with the text of the chapter on ātmavāda, Dr. Kunhan Raja Presentation Volume, 1946, pp. 29-37; vide, also our article, "Buddhist Ātmavāda and Asanga, JGRI,XXIII. 29-50; Ui in ZII, 6, p. 224 sq.; the BSB was translated into Chinese by Dharmaraksa, between 414-421 A.D., the whole YBS was translated by YüanChwang' also; Tibetan translations of Prajñavarman, Surendrabodhi and Jinamitra are also available (YBS, I, intr., pp. 8-9).
Vide also, Bu-ston, II.654.56. 1. Mahāyānasam graha is another name given to it, vide Wayman,
pp. 39-40; Bu-ston, II.140 (Obermiller's trans.), this work is not extant in Sanskrit, its Chinese translation by Paramārtha (563 A.D.) is accessible; vide, E. Lamotte, Le Somme du Grand Vehicul ed' Asanga, II, 1938, MCB., III, 1934-5, pp.169-255; HIL II.355, it is the principal work of the Shoron sect in Japan, vide, McGovern, Intro. to Māhāyāna Buddhism, p. 209. 2. Wayman, Analysis, p. 40; Bu-ston, Il. 140.