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Liberation in the Two Vehicles
Selected Lectures on Saṃyukta Āgama, Volume 1
Contemplating the Five Aggregates and Eliminating the View of Self (Part I) (Second Edition)
Observing the Five Aggregates to Cut Through the View of Self (Part 2)
Commentary on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Second Edition) (Newly Revised)
A Concise Exposition of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment
An Explanation of the Twelve Nidānas in the Āgama Sutras
Methods for Cultivating Samādhi
Cultivation of Concentration and Chan Meditation for Realization of the Way (Part 1)
Cultivation and Zen Practice for Attaining Enlightenment (Part Two)
Commentary on the Samādhi Meditation Sūtra
Prajñā Sūtras
Selected Lectures on the Sutra of the Meeting of Father and Son
A Brief Explanation of the Mahayana Tathagatagarbha Sūtra
Commentary on the Mahayana Vijnaptimatrata Sutra
The Essence of the Heart Sutra
Patriarch's Teachings: Direct Interpretation
Doctrines of the Consciousness-Only School
Mental Factors of the Mind base: A Practical Compass (Second Edition) (with over 30,000 additional words, reorganized)
The Esoteric Significance of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra
The Profound Meaning of the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sutra from the Consciousness-Only Perspective (Second Edition)
A Brief Discourse on the Essence of Consciousness
The Mind Faculty and Consciousness
Theoretical Realization and Practical Realization
The Right Understanding of Manas
Guide to the Cultivation and Realization of the Manas: Part One
A Guide to the Cultivation and Realization of the Mind: Part Two
The World of Black Boxes
Brief Discussion on Material Elements (Draft)
Comprehensive Overview
Miscellaneous Discussions on Buddhism (Part One)
Miscellaneous Discourses on the Dharma (Part II)
Compilation of Daily Discourses
Vinaya Precepts
Commentaries on Buddhist Śāstras
Selected Lectures on the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra
Selected Lectures on the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra
Exposition on the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination in the Yogācārabhūmi
The Twenty-Ninth Volume of the Yogācāra-bhūmi-śāstra (The Practice of the Four Right Efforts)
Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, Volume Thirty-Four: Characteristics of the Four Noble Truths
Abhidharmakośa-śāstra, Volume XXIII: The Four Preparatory Practices
Commentary on the Abhidharmakośa, Volume XXIII (Hearing Wisdom and Contemplative Wisdom)
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The desire mental factor (caitta) of the six consciousnesses does not arise apart from the desire of the manas
The Mental Factor of Desire (chanda) of the Manas Differs from That of the Mind Consciousness
The Difference in the Operation of the Five Universal Mental Factors between Arhats and Ordinary Beings
Not Everyone Can Ascend the Judge's Seat of the Buddha-Dharma to Serve as a Judge
Why Does the Avijñapti-rūpa (Unmanifest Form) Produced During Aspiration and Receiving Precepts Have Functional Effects?
Direct Perception Wisdom Is the Highest Wisdom
Having desire and longing for the dharmas of the three realms, one cannot attain liberation
The Self-Examination Method Personally Experienced by Bai Xuexiang
What is the state of the mind consciousness in the unconditioned?
The Three Desires of Three Kinds of Sentient Beings
The Three Kinds of Afflictive Tendencies of the Manas
Inner disappointment arises because the manas' desires are unfulfilled
The Desire of the Manas, the Governing Consciousness, Plays a Decisive Role
The desire for goals is the mental factor of desire (chanda-caitasika) of the manas.
The Driving Function of the Manas and the Mental Factor of Desire
The nature of continual scrutiny and deliberation is not fixed and unchanging
Only with the wisdom of wonderful observation (pratyavekṣaṇā-jñāna) can one observe the five specific mental factors of the manas
The manas cannot possibly discern only the significant mental sense-objects (dharmas).
The Object-Specific Mental Factors Cannot Be Present and Active at Every Moment and in Every Place
The Scope of Discernment of the Manas
The True Meaning of the Five Universal Mental Factors
The Concept of the Five Object-Specific Mental Factors (pañca-viṣaya-caitta)
Latest Teachings
When consciousness contacts the sense-object, the faculty, the object, and the consciousness converge in contact—what is the result?
The Knowing of the Six Consciousnesses and the Knowing of the Manas
The Difference Between the Patience of the Mind Consciousness and the Patience of the Manas
Lecture on the Diamond Sutra: Why Those Who Receive, Uphold, and Widely Proclaim This Sutra Can Shoulder the Tathāgata's Legacy
The power of logical thinking can give rise to the power of wisdom
Can the Eighth Consciousness Discern the Six Sense Objects?
The Bodhisattvas' Practice on the Teachings of the Great and Small Vehicles
The Manas Universally Contacts All Dharmas
Commentary on the Sūtra of the Collection of the Father and Son (Pitāputrasamāgamanasūtra) (19)
How to Distinguish Between Good Spiritual Teachers and Bad Spiritual Teachers
The Difference Between Understanding and Realization
The Wisdom of Mind Consciousness and Manas: As One Wanes, the Other Waxes
What Does It Mean to Rely on Wisdom Rather Than on Consciousness?
Going Along with Afflictions Is Not the Conduct of Sages
Does Manas Participate in the Transformation from the Object of Real Nature (性境) to the Object Bearing Essence (带质境)?
Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, Volume 34 (16)
The Principle of Truly Engaging in Chan Practice
All Dharmas Are Without Self (III)
The Heedlessness of the Seventh Consciousness
What the manas knows, the mind consciousness does not necessarily know
The Functioning of the Eight Consciousnesses — The Mental Factor of Volition (Cetanā)
The dharmas contacted by the six consciousnesses are all false and illusory