Mahayanasamgraha-sastra, by patriarch Venerable Asanga, is an important Abhidharma treatise of the Yogacara school of the Indian Mahayana tradition, as well as the Dharmalaksana denomination or Vijnanavada of the Chinese Mahayana Buddhism. The ten Chapters of the text encompass elucidation of all core principles of the Mahayana teachings, including alayavijnana, manasvijnana, their relationship with the six sense-cognitions, the three inherent natures of realities, the nature of mere-conscious-constructions, meditational insight, practice of the ten paramita ways, the ten stages of Bodhisattvas' cultivation, types of nirvana, realisation and fruitions of the Buddha-hood.

Abhidharma Teaching of the Mahayanasamgraha of Yogacara School (Mahayanasamgraha-sastra), P. B. Tan, Independently published, Paperback, 226 pages, $28.00

P. B. Tan is from Kuching, a beautiful town in the post British colonial state of Sarawak, which is located in Borneo. He graduated with a Master Degree in Buddhist Philosophy in 2015 from the International Buddhist College (IBC) in Thailand. He has completed his research into the canon of the Theravada Abhidhammapitaka, altogether has taken him five straight years. Currently, he is working on translation and exposition for a few Mahayana sutras beginning from 2021, and is scheduled to complete by the Christmas of 2025. After that he would proceed to complete translations with commentaries for the remaining five more Abhidharma literatures of primarily the Yogacara School, with the last one being 100 fascicles of the Yogacarabhumi-sastra.