Yoga tantra

An almost complete copy of the influentialYoga tantra. One folio missing from beginning of the concertina, so that the work begins at the canonical121: 277b.3. The recto folios ends at121: 282a.2, then one folio is missing again at the end of the manuscript so that the first verso folio picks up again at121: 282a.4. The Dunhuang collections contain two distinct versions of the tantra, one that closely resembles the canonical and one that inserts a number of additional passages. The present translation is an example of the former, the most significant differences appearing in the lists near the beginning, where both Dunhuang versions differ in the same ways from the canonical (compareRf.1r-3rwithIOL Tib J 96, 7r-11vand121: 278a.3-278b.3). Otherwise, the present version exhibits only a few minor differences from the canonical (e.g. reading Vf.1r.4-5cho ga forchos; compare121: 282a.6). For a discussion of the other version of this text, see the entry toIOL Tib J 97.

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Mahāyāna treatise

"A Brief Introduction to the Gates of Appearances," an incompleteabhidharma-style discussion of various topics. Discussions include: impermanence, the three jewels, the three realms, cosmology, six kinds of beings, elements, types of birth, three poisons, five skandhas, eight consciousnesses, four demons, four truths, ten virtues, compounded and uncompounded phenomena, the three natures, three liberations, and three vehicles. The manuscript ends in the midst of this last topic.