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The Treatise on the Elucidation of the Knowable was composed in 1278 for crown prince Zhenjin, second son of the Mongol emperor Qubilai. ""The Cycle of the Formation of the Schismatic Doctrines"" is based on Xuanzang's 7th-century Chinese translation (""Yibuzonglunlun"") of the ""Samayabhedoparacanacakra"". This work presents two titles in one volume.

This is the third and concluding volume in this translation of The Canonical Book of the Buddha's Lengthy Discourses (Taisho 1). Volume 3 contains sutras 21-30. The importance of the work may be signified by its position as the first work to lead off the Taisho edition of the canon.

Presented in two volumes, where the first volume provides a detailed account of the history and teaching of the Japanese Risshu school. The second introduces the doctrine and practice of this Buddhist school.

Translated by John P Keenan, this fourth-century commentary on the Buddhabhumisutra is one of the earliest texts of the Yogacara tradition.

The basic sutra of the Fa-hsian School, The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning expounds the thought of the Yogacara, or Mind-Only School, stating that all phenomena are manifestations of the mind. It belongs to the middle period of Indian Mahayana Buddhism and is considered to have been composed at the start of the 4th century AD.

Contains five scriptural texts that have been especially important and influential in the East Asian Buddhist tradition: ""The Bequeathed Teaching Sutra""; ""The Ullambana Sutra""; ""The Sutra of Forty-two Sections""; ""The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment""; and, ""The Sutra on the Profundity of Filial Love"".

Kyogyoshinsho presents a collection of 376 passages from 62 sutras, discourses, and commentaries, organized into a coherent and comprehensive explication of the Pure Land teaching.

Contains five texts by Kukai, including ""On the Differences between the Exoteric and Esoteric Teachings"", and ""The Meaning of Becoming a Buddha in This Very Body"". This volume also includes texts by Kakuban: ""The Illuminating Secret Commentary on the Five Cakras and the Nine Syllables"", and ""The Mitsugonin Confession"".

The Sutra of Queen Srimala is an important early Mahayana text. The ""Vimalakirti Sutra"" is a well-known sutra that deals extensively with the doctrines of nonduality and emptiness. This work presents two titles in one volume.

The Summary of the Great Vehicle attempts to systematize Buddhist thought into a unified whole from the standpoint of the Yogacara school.

Contains biographies of three great Mahayana masters, sixty-five Chinese nuns from the fourth to sixth centuries, and an account of the life and travels in South Asia of the fifth-century Chinese monk, Faxian.

Records the life and teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Chan (Zen) Patriarch. This work is an eleventh-century compilation with ancillary materials.

Translated by Thomas Cleary, this collection of 100 koans is highly regarded by the Rinzai School of Zen as a model instructional text.

Contains two titles - ""The Essentials of the Eight Traditions"" that offers concise explanations of the eight major schools of Japanese Buddhism; and ""The Candle of the Latter Dharma"" that discusses the state of monastic practice in the Age of the Latter Dharma.

Contains two works by the founder of the Nichiren Shu school: ""Risshoankokuron"" and ""Kanjinhonzonsho"".

Translated by Sencho Murano, this thirteenth-century text by Nichiren extols the Lotus Sutra and critiques the other schools of Japanese Buddhism active at that time.

Presents a fifth-century compilation containing 121 Buddhist parables from the time of Sakyamuni to King Kaniska.