Treatise in Thirty Verses on Mere-Consciousness
by Swati Ganguly

The Wei-shis-san-shih-lun-sung is a Chinese version by Hsuan-tsang the great Chinese scholar and traveller of the Sanskrit text of the Trimsikakarikas of Vasubandhu. The Trimsika sums up the essentials of the Yogacara Vijnanavada school of Buddhist thought in thirty verses. Ten Indian Yogacara teachers including Dharmapala elaborated them in their commentaries on the Trimsika.The book explores the developments and the various implications of the doctrine of Mere-consciousness. It aims at the evaluation and reconstruction of the patterns of Buddhist idealism in India and China from the Sanskrit and Chinese sources of the Yogacara-Vijnanavada. This work is the first comprehensive translation and interpretation of the basic Yogacara-Vijnanavada texts preserved in chinese. Dr. Swati Ganguly was born in 1945 in West Bengal. She obtained two M.A. degree one in sanskrit from the University of Calcutta and the other in Asian Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign U.S.A. She was awarded D. Phil. in sanskrit by the University of Calcutta. Her doctoral dissertation was written in sanskrit language.