A Study of the Dharmadharmatavibhanga (Volume Two): Vasubandhu’s Commentary and Three Critical Editions of the Root Texts

This book is the second volume of the four-volume series. The book gegins with a historical overview of the Maitreyan tradition,and a study of the key doctrines presented in the Dharmadharmatavibhanga, including the "transformation of basis", the teaching ofprimordial loss of intrinsic awareness and the appearance of adventitious defilement, ....

Preface
1 Introduction to the Dharmadharmatavibhanga of Maitreya
1.1 The texts: the root – text and its commentaries
1.2 The Maitreyan tradition
1.3 Historical perspective
1.4 The transformation of basis
1.5 The Dharmadharmatavibhanga does not mention the three constitutive princeples
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2 Maitreyan Yogacara and the criticism of it by Tsong kha pa and Bimal Krishna Matilal
2.1 What does Maitreyan Yogacara mean by its teching that”objects do not exist apart from a subject’s awareness”?
2.2 Summary of the basic Maitreyan Yogacara expression that apart from being known by a subject objects do not exist
2.3 Bimal Krishna Matilal considers Yogacara to be confused idealism
2.4 Conclusion of Matilal
2.5 Tsong kha pa sees Maitreyan Yogacara as mentalism
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3 Vasubandhu’s commentary to the Dharmadharmatavibhanga
3.1 Schematic of contents for vasubandhu’s Dharmadharmatavibhanga:short form
3.2 Schematic of contents for Vasubandhu’s Dharmadharmatavibhangavrtti: detailed form
3.3 Translation of Vasubandhu’s commentary
4 A Modern Commentary on the Dharmadharmatavibhanga from the Perspective of the rNying ma Tradition by Master tam Shekwing
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Defining characteristics of Dharma and Dharmats
4.3 The approach to Dharma
4.4 The approach to Dharmata
4.5 The approach to the transformation of basis
4.6 The concluding verses
5. Three Critical Editions of the Dharmadharmatavibhanga
Bibliography
Index
Chinese abstract