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Analysis of Yoga in the Samdhinirmocana-sūtra
substantiality, in accordance with the Samdhinirmocana, is demonstrated in the chapter on the Absolute Truth (tattvaadhikāra) of the Bodhisattva-bhūmi. The teaching about the store-consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna), the negation of the reality of the external world and the teaching about the three aspects of existence (of which the causally dependent and the ultimate are treated as being real by themselves) is discussed in detail in the Mahāyāna-samgraha. The chief points thus demonstrated are, moreover, summarized in the Abhidharma-samuccaya, and the treatises of Vasubandhu exposed the subject on the same lines. The main texts which give a summary of the contents of the Samdhinirmocana and of which the treatises of Asanga and Vasubandhu just mentioned are considered to be the interpretation, ...... are the Sutrâlamkāra, the Madhyanta-vibhanga and the Dharma-dharmatā-vibhanga."
E. Obermiller: "The Doctrine of Prajñāpāramitā”,
Acta Orientalia, (Uppsala, 1933), pp. 97-98. As Prof. Obermiller pointed out above, there is a close relationship between this Sūtra and the Yogācāra-bhūmi. A long quotation in the latter begins abruptly without mentioning the name of the Sūtra it is quoting. A quotation from a Sūtra in its entirety in a śāstra is quite rare in Buddhist literature. From this, Prof. S. Fukaura ( TE *) suggested once that it is probable that the Samdhinirmocana might be originally a part of the Yogācāra-bhūmi and later on become an independent sūtra with the addition of the introductory verses, just as the Pu-sa-ti-ch'ih-ching (i t t
THER) became independent out of the Yogācāra-bhūmi. Cf. A. Wayman : Analysis of the Śrāvakabhūmi Manuscript (Berkeley,
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