On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi

by Asanga

This is the first English translation with commentary of a crucial chapter of the Bodhisattvabhumi, composed in Sanskrit in the late fourth century by the philosopher-sage Asanga, founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. The chapter is the core of Asanga's theoretical it deals with the central epistemological question of how to judge and validate knowledge, and how confusions about "reality" arise.

202 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1982