Wei Shih Er Shih Lun
By Vasubandhu
Translated by Clarence H. Hamilton
American Oriental Society, New Haven, 1938, American Oriental Series
First written 4th–5th century CE
About this text
Hamilton’s translation, from Xuanzang’s Chinese version, of Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses, a short work arguing that what appear as external objects are representations in consciousness, answering objections with the example of dreams.
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Vasubandhu. Wei Shih Er Shih Lun: or, The Treatise in Twenty Stanzas on Representation-Only. Translated by Clarence H. Hamilton. American Oriental Series. American Oriental Society, New Haven, 1938.
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