1. It is a Yogacara text particularly popular in East Asian Yogacara. 2. It is a Yogacara text particularly popular in East Asian Yogacara . 3. This is also the understanding of Enlightenment found in Yogacara Buddhism. 4. Yogacara focuses on meditative practice, epistemology and logic.5. Zhang wanted to promote Yogacara Buddhism as a philosophy, not a religion. 6. The later Yogacara commentator Sthiramati explains this thus: 7. During this time, Xuanzang also became interested in the metaphysical Yogacara school of Buddhism. 8. The text, written in verse, presents the Mahayana path from the Yogacara perspective. 9. From there, Sawaki traveled to HMryk-ji to study Yogacara with Join Saeki. 10. Shentong is closely related to the Yogacara school and the concept of Buddha-nature.
