The Foundation For Yoga Practitioners: The Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise And Its Adaptation In India, East Asia, And Tibet (harvard Oriental Series)

The Yogacarabhumi , a fourth-century Sanskrit treatise, is the largest Indian text on Buddhist meditation. Its enormous scope exhaustively encompasses all yoga instructions on the disciplines and contemplative exercises of sravaka , pratyekabuddha , and bodhisattva practitioners. The thoroughness of the text meant that the Yogacarabhumi became the fundamental source for later Buddhist writings on meditation across Asia. The present edited volume, conceived by Geumgang University in South Korea, brings together the scholarship of thirty-four leading Buddhist specialists on the Yogacarabhumi from across the globe. The essays elaborate the background and environment in which the Yogacarabhumi was composed and redacted, provide a detailed summary of the work, raise fundamental and critical issues about the text, and reveal its reception history in India, China, and Tibet. The volume also provides a thorough survey of contemporary Western and Asian scholarship on the Yogacarabhumi in particular and the Yogacara tradition more broadly. The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners aims not only to tie together the massive research on this text that has been carried out in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States up to now, but also to make this scholarship accessible to all students and scholars of Buddhism. 0. Contents The-Foundation-for-Yoga-Practitioners-TOC 1. The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners (1-101) 10. Garbhavakrantau - Robert Kritzer (pp.738-771) 11. Nets of Intertextuality - Peter Skilling (pp.772-792) 12. The Bhavanamayi Bhumih - Yasunori Sugawara (pp.792-851) 13. Remarks on the Bhavanamayi Bhumih - Alexander von Rospatt (pp. 852-871) 14. Right Conduct - Michael Zimmermann (pp.872-883) 15. Meditative Practices - Florin Deleanu (pp.884-919) 16. Alayavijana as Keystone Dharma (William S. Waldron) (pp. 922-937) 17. Sanskrit Fragments of the Samdhinirmocanasutra - Kazunobu Matsuda (pp.939-945) 18. What are Acaryas - Changhwan Park (pp.948-985) 19. A Study of the Samskara - Jowita Kramer (pp.986-1035) 2. The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners (102-201) 20. Yogacara and Vajrayana - Harunaga Isaacson (pp.1036-1051) 21. The Revival of Yogacara in Modern Chinese Buddhism - Bing Chen (pp.1054 -1076) 22. The Root that Nourishes the Branches - Eyal Aviv (pp.1078-1091) 23. Chinese Schlarship on Yogachara Buddhism since 1949 - Lawrence Lau (pp.1092-1164) 24. Meditation Doctrine on the Nine Stages of Mental Abiding - Sangyeob Cha (pp.1166-1191) 25. The Contribution of the Yogacharabhumi to the System of the Two Hindrances - Charles Muller (pp.1192-1211) 26. Theories of the Darsanamarga - Sungdoo Ahn (pp.1212-1232) 27. The Weishi School and the Buddha-Nature - Mokoto Yoshimura (pp. 1235-1253) 28. A Brief History of Studies on the Yogachara School in Modern Kore - Kim, S. (p.1254-1295) 29. Gadjin M. Nagao on MSA I.1 and I.2 - Leslie Kawamura (pp. 1296-1313) 3. The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners (202-439) 30. On the Status of the Yogachara School in Tibetan Buddhism - Dorji Wangchuk (pp. 1316-1328) 31. Yogachara in the Writings of the 11th Century - Orna Almogi (pp. 1330-1361) 32. All Mind, No Text - All Text, No Mind - Ulrich Timme Kragh (pp. 1362-1386) 33. Notes on Jnanamitra's Commentary on the Abhidharmasamuccaya - Leonard Van Der Kuijp (pp.1388-1429) 4. Kusala and Akusala (440-495) 5. The Yogacarabhumi Corpus (498-561) 6. The Premise of Vastu in the Manobhumi (564-577) 7. A Note on medicine and Psychosomatic Relations (578-595) 8. Parallel Passages (Pages 596 - 605) 9. Appendix (Pages 606-737) The Yogācārabhūmi Background And Environment -- The Yogācārabhūmi : The Text -- The Yogācārabhūmi : The Basic Section -- The Yogācārabhūmi : The Supplementary Section -- The Indian Yogācāra Reception -- The East Asian Yogācāra Reception -- The Tibetan Yogācāra Reception. Edited By Ulrich Timme Kragh. Includes Bibliographical References. The fourth-century Sanskrit treatise Yogacarabhumi is the largest Indian text on Buddhist meditation. In The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners, leading Buddhist scholars from across the globe offer a critical summary of the work, elaborate on its compositional background, and reveal its reception history in India, China, and Tibet.