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Translations: Completed and In-Progress

Established: 2004.04.10 ||| Updated 2007.10.18

• Wonhyo's Ijangui ("Doctrine of the Two Hindrances" 二障義); an exhaustive treatment of the hindrances of the afflictions and cognition through the Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha textual corpus. Translation completed, awaiting publication through the Wonhyo Translation project.
• Wonhyo's Amitagyeong so ("Commentary on the Pure Land Sūtra" 阿彌陀經疏). Translation completed, awaiting publication through the Wonhyo Translation project.
• The Diamond Sūtra. One of the most cited and most chanted scriptures in the entire Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition, which focuses on revealing the seminal Buddhist doctrine/practice of mental non-abiding.
• Ten Approaches to the Resolution of Doctrinal Disputes (Simmun hwajaeng non). By Wonhyo
• The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Yuanjue jing). A scripture composed in China that teaches central Mahāyāna views and methods and which was influential in the development of the East Asian meditative schools (Chan, Seon, Zen) of Buddhism.
• Jeong Dojeon's Bulssi japbyeon ("Array of Critiques of Buddhism" 佛氏雜辨); a major anti-Buddhist polemical treatise by a fourteenth century Neo-Confucian political philosopher. Published on the Internet.
• Gihwa's Hyeonjeong non ("Articulation of the Correct" 顯正論); a fourteenth century treatise defending Buddhism from the Neo-Confucian criticisms as raised in the above work by Jeong Dojeon. Published on the Internet.
• Zongmi on the Two Hindrances. Zongmi's Large Commentary on the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment includes a valuable treatment of the two hindrances, comparing their implications in Yogācāra texts, tathāgatagarbha texts, and the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment.
• Five Chinese Classics: Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius, and Daodejing.
• The Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, fascicles 48-71. I am doing this for the Numata Translation Project. Presently, draft translation is completed up through fascicle 53.