The Complete Map of the Path.

Fascicle 1 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 1 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Five Sense Consciousnesses in full, and the opening of the Mind Stage through the moment of conception. Fascicle 2 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 2 of the 瑜伽師地論: gestation, birth, the world's destruction and formation, and an extended series of classificatory lists. Fascicle 3 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 3 of the 瑜伽師地論: the five topics reduced to three categories, matter theory, the fifty-three mental factors, and an extended numerical catalogue culminating in the eighty-seven dharmas. Fascicle 4 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 4 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Three Grounds of Applied and Sustained Thought, and an exhaustive survey of the three realms — their places, measures, lifespans, sufferings, and pleasures. Fascicle 5 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 5 of the 瑜伽師地論: completing the survey of the three realms' birth, own-body, and cause-condition-result, then applied and sustained thought and sound reasoning attention in full. Fascicle 6 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 6 of the 瑜伽師地論: unsound reasoning attention, surveyed through five of sixteen non-Buddhist doctrines — effect-in-cause, manifestation, the three times, self, and permanence. Fascicle 7 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 7 of the 瑜伽師地論: completing the survey of sixteen non-Buddhist doctrines, from a sovereign creator to caste supremacism and stargazing. Fascicle 8 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 8 of the 瑜伽師地論: the full analysis of affliction, and karma's ten courses of action, causes, and stages. Fascicle 9 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 9 of the 瑜伽師地論: karma's forty-three-fold taxonomy and its faults, and rebirth defilement opens with dependent origination's full nine-part analysis. Fascicle 10 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 10 of the 瑜伽師地論: dependent origination's full nine-part analysis completes, closing the entire three-grounds section running since fascicle 4. Fascicle 11 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 11 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of Meditative Equipoise — the dhyānas and liberations, the hindrances, the gateways of release, the Four Reliances, and the great analysis of attention and its object. Fascicle 12 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 12 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of Meditative Equipoise continues — the eight liberations, masteries, and totalities, the three doors to liberation, the four immeasurables, the five noble knowledges, and the vajra-like and cessation attainments. Fascicle 13 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 13 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of Meditative Equipoise closes, four further grounds pass in a single scroll — Non-Equipoise, With-Mind, Without-Mind — and the Ground of What Is Attained Through Hearing opens, with its rich concept catalogue running from "word" to "the sacred teaching." Fascicle 14 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 14 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of What Is Attained Through Hearing continues its vast numeric catalogue of Buddhist teaching, climbing all the way from three things through seven — the last category the source text reaches — from the ten unwholesome courses of action to the seven ways a community resolves its own disputes. Fascicle 15 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our complete plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 15 of the 瑜伽師地論: inner wisdom's numeric catalogue closes at ten things, and the treatise crosses into medicine, classical Indian logic, linguistics, and the practical arts — closing the entire Ground of What Is Attained Through Hearing. Fascicle 16 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 16 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of What Is Attained Through Hearing gives way to the Ground of What Is Attained Through Reflection, opening with the nine marks of a mind that reflects on the Dharma correctly. Fascicle 17 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 17 of the 瑜伽師地論: the verses on the essential body of the teaching — five of fourteen topics carried in full, from avoiding all evil through fear answered by wisdom, restraint, and relinquishment. Fascicle 18 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 18 of the 瑜伽師地論: thirteen of fourteen essential-body-verse topics carried to completion — genuine spiritual guidance, the spring of craving, the true meaning of "brahmin," the Buddha's own toil — plus the opening of the fourteenth and largest topic on impermanence, heedfulness, and the fruit of karma. Fascicle 19 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 19 of the 瑜伽師地論: the fourteenth and largest topic of the essential-body verses, discourse, carried to completion — from good speech through Maitreya's five questions to the five marks of a genuinely virtuous life, finishing the entire fourteen-topic verse cycle. Fascicle 20 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 20 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of What Is Attained Through Cultivation, complete — its four-part, seven-branch framework carried from favorable rebirth through a hearer-disciple's full path from stream-entry to arhatship. Fascicle 21 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 21 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of Spiritual Lineage and the Ground of Entry, complete — the first two of three grounds opening the Ground of the Hearer-Disciples. Fascicle 22 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 22 of the 瑜伽師地論: mundane and supramundane detachment, and moral discipline carried to a genuinely complete close — its structure, impairments, virtues, and more. Fascicle 23 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 23 of the 瑜伽師地論: restraint of the faculties and moderation in eating, both complete — six steps to guarding the senses, then an extraordinarily detailed teaching on eating with correct discernment. Fascicle 24 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 24 of the 瑜伽師地論: wakeful practice through the day and the four watches of the night, and clear awareness in conduct, both complete. Fascicle 25 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 25 of the 瑜伽師地論: the fourteen provisions for the path complete — good companionship, hearing and reflecting on the true teaching, freedom from obstruction, generosity, and the ornaments of a genuine renunciant. Fascicle 26 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 26 of the 瑜伽師地論: the second yogic process opens — the twenty-eight kinds of practitioners, the eleven classifying principles, and objects of meditation from pervasive objects through impurity and loving-kindness. Fascicle 27 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 27 of the 瑜伽師地論: all four objects of meditation complete — dependent origination, the six elements, breath-mindfulness to arhatship, skillful objects, and the four noble truths — then instruction opens. Fascicle 28 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 28 of the 瑜伽師地論: the three higher trainings, conduct according with training, the failure and nature of yogic practice, and the four foundations of mindfulness in full — all complete. Fascicle 29 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 29 of the 瑜伽師地論: the thirty-seven factors of enlightenment complete, then the fruit of cultivation, synonyms for a practitioner, demonic forces, and the causes of success and failure — the second yogic process concludes. Fascicle 30 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 30 of the 瑜伽師地論: the third yogic process opens — seeking a teacher, safeguarding the provisions for concentration, seclusion in full, the nine stages of mental abiding, and contemplations of impurity and loving-kindness, complete. Fascicle 31 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 31 of the 瑜伽師地論: all five purifying-conduct objects, eighteen preparatory practices, and the four obstructions complete; cultivating mental engagement opens with the goldsmith's craft of taming and moistening the mind. Fascicle 32 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 32 of the 瑜伽師地論: all five purifying-conduct objects taught in full, and near-attainment concentration actually attained — the third yogic process concludes. Fascicle 33 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 33 of the 瑜伽師地論: the mundane path complete — seven mental engagements carry a practitioner through the four dhyānas, four formless absorptions, two mindless attainments, and five superknowledges, to the marks of one truly freed from desire. Fascicle 34 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 34 of the 瑜伽師地論: the supramundane path completes — stream-entry through arhatship via vajra-like concentration — closing the entire Ground of the Hearer-Disciples, then opening and completing the Ground of the Solitary Buddha. Fascicle 35 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 35 of the 瑜伽師地論: the Ground of the Bodhisattva opens — the bodhisattva lineage and the arising of the resolve complete in full, then the factors of awakening begin with self-and-other-benefit. Fascicle 36 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 36 of the 瑜伽師地論: self-and-other-benefit closes, and the chapter on true meaning completes in full — the bodhisattva's purified truth, the inexpressible nature of phenomena, and how purifying the obstruction that blocks this wisdom leads to universal mastery. Fascicle 37 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 37 of the 瑜伽師地論: the chapter on power completes in full, and the chapter on ripening unfolds entirely — from the six superknowledges and a buddha's innate power to the twenty-seven means that bring a being to full spiritual maturity. Fascicle 38 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 38 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — the chapter on awakening opens (what buddhahood actually consists of), then the chapter on the lineage of the powers completes all seven points of genuine learning, from conviction through the four means of embrace. Fascicle 39 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 39 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — the entire chapter on the perfection of giving, unfolded across all nine classical aspects from its intrinsic nature through skillful wisdom, difficult giving, and purity in every dimension. Fascicle 40 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 40 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — the perfection of discipline's intrinsic nature and its complete comprehensive practice, the full ordination ceremony, and the four root violations that define bodhisattva ethics. Continues in fascicle 41. Fascicle 41 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 41 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — the entire architecture of the bodhisattva precepts, all forty-three minor precepts across giving, discipline, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom, the eight classical exceptions where compassion overrides an ordinarily wrong deed, and the practical mechanics of confession and self-ordination. Continues in fascicle 42. Fascicle 42 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 42 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — closes the entire chapter on discipline, then carries the perfection of patience and the perfection of diligence each through their full nine-category architecture. Continues in fascicle 43. Fascicle 43 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 43 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — completes the six perfections with meditative concentration and wisdom, then carries kind speech, beneficial conduct, and working alongside others through to the karmic fruits this practice produces. Continues in fascicle 44. Fascicle 44 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 44 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — closes the entire sixteenth chapter on venerating the three jewels, approaching good friends, and cultivating the immeasurables, then opens the seventeenth chapter on the factors of awakening through conscience and shame, firm resolve, a tireless mind, skill in treatises, and skill in worldly knowledge. Continues in fascicle 45. Fascicle 45 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 45 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — carries the seventeenth chapter through nine full topics, from the four correct reliances and skillful means through wondrous mnemonic retention, the ten great vows, and the three concentrations. Continues in fascicle 46. Fascicle 46 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 46 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — closes the seventeenth chapter on the factors of awakening with the four classical dharma seals, then carries the eighteenth and final chapter of this section, the qualities of a bodhisattva, through all five of its summary verses to completion. This closes the entire eighteen-chapter initial yoga foundation of the Bodhisattva Stage spanning fascicles 44 through 46. Fascicle 47 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 47 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — opens the Bodhisattva Stage's second section on the ongoing practice of the path with a bodhisattva's five true marks, the four dharmas for householder and renunciate, excellent aspiration, and the chapter on the thirteen abodes, closing the abode of resolute practice and giving the abode of utmost joy (the first ground) a complete eightfold account. Fascicle 48 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 48 of the 瑜伽師地論: fascicle complete — carries the chapter on the thirteen abodes through seven entire grounds (heightened discipline, heightened mind, the three grounds of heightened wisdom, going far, immovability, and excellent wisdom), opening the tenth and final ground at the threshold of dharma-consecration. Fascicle 49 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 49 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the available source extends — the chapter on the grounds regrouping thirteen abodes into seven, the chapter on conduct, and the chapter on establishment's account of the Buddha's 140 exclusive qualities through the thirty-two marks, eighty exemplary signs, four utter purities, and all ten powers. Fascicle 50 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 50 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the ten powers synthesized through seven angles, all 140 exclusive buddha-qualities and ten buddha-deeds completed, the entire Bodhisattva Stage's architecture retraced, and the treatise's final two grounds, the Stage With Residue Remaining and the Stage With No Residue Remaining, bringing the Basic Section's seventeen stages to their close. Fascicle 51 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 51 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — opens the Chapter of Deciding Discernment with the eight classical proofs for the store-consciousness, comprehensive self-knowledge of the mind, and a searching refutation of the doctrine that past, present, and future are all equally real. Fascicle 52 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 52 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — completes the four conditions, then works through arising, aging, abiding, impermanence, attainment, and an extensive doctrine of seeds themselves, including the classical debate over innate versus newly cultivated uncontaminated seeds. Fascicle 53 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 53 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — expressed and unexpressed karma, the two mindless meditative attainments, the two unconditioned phenomena, and the six kinds of skillful understanding's exhaustive analysis of form, feeling, perception, and formations. Fascicle 54 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 54 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — consciousness's own fivefold distinctions, the six general aspects shared by all five aggregates, and a complete ten-angle analysis of form aggregate itself. Fascicle 55 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 55 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — a complete ten-angle analysis of the four formless aggregates, followed by an extensive inquiry into how the five aggregates relate to the four noble truths. Fascicle 56 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 56 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — completing the skillful understanding of the aggregates, elements, and sense-fields, then opening dependent origination through ignorance's five generated effects and Venerable Sudarśana's rainmaking pride. Fascicle 57 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 57 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — completing the skillful understanding of the valid and invalid and the faculties, closing all six kinds of skillful understanding after a seven-fascicle discussion, with the six wrong views each was taught to dispel. Fascicle 58 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 58 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — opening the three stages of examination and reflection with King Yama's true role as benefactor, then fully determining affliction defilement's five aspects and correlating it with the sutras' own vivid imagery. Fascicle 59 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 59 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — completing affliction defilement's extensive analysis, then opening karma defilement with all ten unwholesome karma-paths worked out in full, their factors, methods, and motives. Fascicle 60 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 60 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — completing karma defilement's decisive discernment in full, then opening rebirth defilement with eleven kinds of existence and ignorance's own complete five-aspect anatomy. Fascicle 61 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 61 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — three sutras cited in full, King Udayana's own audience with the Buddha, the eight sufferings, and ten gateways establishing lower, middling, and superior persons, closing with Maitreya's own declaration that this decisive discernment is complete. Fascicle 62 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 62 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — the Ground of Meditative Equipoise opens with eighteen afflictions obstructing concentration, then unfolds through liberation, cessation, four sutras cited in full, and the causes of swift penetration into suchness. Fascicle 63 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 63 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — closing the Ground of Meditative Equipoise, then racing through the Ground of Non-Meditative-Equipoise and the Ground possessing mind, before opening the Ground without mind's own seven causes for a moment of consciousness failing to arise. Fascicle 64 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 64 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — the entire Ground of Wisdom Attained through Hearing, from why the Three Jewels alone are worthy of refuge through the sciences of inner knowledge, logic, and linguistics, to the ten marks of complete learning. Fascicle 65 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 65 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — opening the Ground of Wisdom Attained through Reflection, from the fourfold refutation of a real self through twenty-seven dharmas subsumed under this ground, to the four objects of yogic practice culminating in the Four Noble Truths and suchness. Fascicle 66 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 66 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — completing the Ground of Wisdom Attained through Reflection, from the four foods that sustain a being through ripened result, cause and result, and the path of seeing's and cultivation's own abandonments, to the treatise's own declaration that every dharma is profound and hard to see. Fascicle 67 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 67 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — completing the Ground of Wisdom Attained through Cultivation, then opening the Śrāvaka Ground's decisive discernment through its lineage, its ten kinds, and four canonical topics culminating in the four noble truths. Fascicle 68 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 68 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — closing the four noble truths and coarse-speech topics, then unfolding the vinaya's own thirteen divisions from the four obstacles to ordination through what taints a monastic's actual use of robes, food, and medicine. Fascicle 69 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 69 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — closing the vinaya's own thirteen divisions in full, from the profound depth behind every precept's establishment through when a fellow monastic's broken discipline may rightly be named, to the Lotus Sūtra's burning house and the vinaya's own five kinds of illustrative teaching. Fascicle 70 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 70 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — opening the eighth topic's miscellaneous meanings with wisdom's own light, closing the eight categories establishing renunciation's provisions in full, and closing a further thirty-one-aspect discussion of virtue and fault from the five kinds of persons through what makes a monastic fit to guide a community. Fascicle 71 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 71 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — fourteen categories of meaning including the six kinds of direct realization examined from twenty-two angles, the Ghee-Simile Sūtra's four reasonings, dwelling with correct knowledge in speech and silence, and the thirty causes that keep a practitioner from entering the path, closing the entire Determination of the Śrāvaka Ground. Fascicle 72 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 72 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — the Determination of the Bodhisattva Ground opens with bodhisattva lineage, ten kinds of aspiration for awakening, and the nine right practices for oneself and others, then gives most of its length to the Chapter on the Real, which sets out the five things of the Great Vehicle and turns them over from eleven angles, the last sorting them against thirty-six standard categories from the aggregates to the eight liberations. Fascicle 73 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 73 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — a second verse turns the five things of the Great Vehicle over from nine further angles, with the conjurer's elephants and why no thing's own nature can be spoken, the question of whether one person's awakening would end the world, why nirvāṇa is not extinction, the hidden intent behind fourteen sayings of the Buddha, and then the three natures with ten kinds of imputation. Fascicle 74 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 74 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — two further verses on the three natures close the long Chapter on the Real, then the Chapter on Awakening (the turning of the basis, why it is inconceivable, ten masteries), the Chapter on the Lineage of Powers, and the Chapter on Giving with its seven purities worked out through seventy aspects of what makes a bodhisattva's giving clean. Fascicle 75 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 75 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — a bodhisattva's three clusters of discipline and the six perfections' compressed purities, the Chapter on the Factors of Awakening with its subtle bonds of characteristic and conceptualization, the Chapter on Excellent Qualities refuting nihilistic emptiness and establishing the Great Vehicle's legitimacy, and an extended Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra citation on the ultimate truth's five characteristics. Fascicle 76 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 76 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — the secret meaning of mind, intellect, and consciousness (the ālaya and ādāna consciousness), the three natures and three kinds of lacking a nature of one's own with their five lineages, and the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra's own account of the three turnings of the wheel of the Dharma. Fascicle 77 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 77 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the whole Chapter Distinguishing Yoga, Maitreya's twenty-six questions to the Buddha on calm-abiding and insight, from the basic objects of meditation through the seventeen emptinesses to the exact stages by which the two are practiced together all the way to unsurpassed enlightenment, closing with the teaching's own name. Fascicle 78 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 78 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the Chapter Distinguishing the Ground-Pāramitās in full (the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara's questions on the ten grounds and the six pāramitās) and the Chapter Distinguishing Accomplished Activities in full (the Buddha's Dharma-body, its effortless activity, and impure and pure lands), completing the treatise's entire seven-chapter citation of the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra. Fascicle 79 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 79 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the source lecture-transcript extends — closing the chapter on excellent qualities, then the thirteen abodes, the eleven marks of the grounds, establishment (the eighteen exclusive buddha-dharmas), and the first five of sixteen gateways in the chapter on conduct. Fascicle 80 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 80 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing the chapter on conduct's remaining ten gateways, the entire Determination of the Bodhisattva Ground (fascicles 72–80), and the Determination of the Grounds With and Without Residue, bringing the treatise's whole Determinations section, all seventeen grounds, to its final close. Fascicle 81 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 81 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — opening the Compendium of Explanations, covering a sūtra's own body of text and meaning through five aspects of explanation, and the ten marks and eightfold speech of a genuine Dharma-teacher. Fascicle 82 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 82 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the listener's ten reasons for respectful attention, praising the Buddha, and a full worked demonstration of the whole method on an actual sūtra passage, closing the Compendium of Explanations (fascicles 81–82) entirely. Fascicle 83 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 83 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the first three verses of the Compendium of Synonyms' wholesome portion, from the many kinds of teacher and wisdom's fifty-four synonyms through the Tathāgata, the unconditioned, and non-residue. Fascicle 84 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 84 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the Compendium of Synonyms' fourth wholesome verse (desire's eight similes of danger, the saṅgha, impermanence) and the entire unwholesome verse (birth, aging, death, affliction, greed, hatred, and delusion), closing the whole division. Fascicle 85 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 85 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the Compendium of Bases begins, cataloguing all twenty-four kinds of sūtra, completing the aggregates section's first topic (element) entirely, and opening its second topic through threefold complete wisdom. Fascicle 86 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 86 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing perception and formation entirely, then opening swift penetration through the five aggregates likened to foam, a bubble, a mirage, a plantain trunk, and an illusion. Fascicle 87 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 87 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing cause, the branches of cutting off, and the two categories entirely, from the sixty-two wrong views to the arhat's palace-city simile to the well-taught compared with the wrongly taught. Fascicle 88 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 88 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing wisdom's object, contention, weariness and freedom from desire, and dwelling with few desires, bringing the aggregates section (行擇攝) and all 178 sūtras of its Āgama recitation to a full close. Fascicle 89 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 89 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the sense-bases section (處擇攝) opens with establishing (安立攝), working through feeling, the foolish and the wise, teaching, liberation, and, at length, affliction (all sixteen divisions) and karma. Fascicle 90 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 90 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing the kinds of karma and Establishing (安立攝) entirely, then the full ten topics of Wisdom (智攝) and the full eight topics of Sameness and Equality (同等攝), including the complete Lesser and Greater Discourses on Emptiness. Fascicle 91 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 91 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing freedom from desire and the rest (離欲等攝) and the cause of the same portion (因同分等攝) entirely, then all twelve topics of mere action and the rest (唯作緣等攝), from mere condition through positing the treatise. Fascicle 92 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 92 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the lecture source goes — opening superior-grade craving and the rest (上品貪等攝), closing its first two of twelve topics (superior craving and exhortation), after which fascicle 93 confirms the sense-bases section closes in the treatise itself. Fascicle 93 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 93 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete as far as the lecture source goes — the sense-bases section now closed, opening dependent origination and the rest, closing its first five topics, after which fascicle 94 confirms this fascicle's own scope also covers the two truths and the rest (二諦等). Fascicle 94 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 94 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing dependent origination's embrace (緣起攝, spanning fascicles 93–94) entirely, then opening and closing the embrace of food (食攝) entirely as well. Fascicle 95 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 95 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the embrace of the truths (諦攝) entire, all twelve topics from wisdom in accordance with truth through what is hard to attain, closing with the fingernail-dirt-versus-the-great-earth similes on how rare true realization is. Fascicle 96 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 96 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — the embrace of the elements (界攝) entire, closing the whole dependent-origination, food, truths, and elements section (fascicles 93–96) — the eight liberations, the seven past buddhas' contemplation of feeling, and the three most sublime pleasures. Fascicle 97 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 97 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — opening the embrace of the factors of enlightenment (菩提分法擇攝), the fourth and final great division, and closing the four foundations of mindfulness's first three particular verses entire: the true renunciant found only in the inner dharma, the single boundless path to nirvāṇa, and the roots, bonds, and great fruit of sustained cultivation. Fascicle 98 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 98 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — closing the foundations of mindfulness's fourth verse, then right effort with the bases of supernormal power, the faculties, the powers, and the seven factors of enlightenment entire, before opening the eightfold path with its first section on the inward and outward powers that give rise to it. Fascicle 99 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 99 of the 瑜伽師地論: complete — opening matters of monastic discipline and closing six of its nine great matters entire: benefit, classes of offense, the fivefold embrace of the vinaya, conduct in accordance, contrary and accordant practice (including the extensive catalog of what merely resembles the true dharma), and tranquility, from the six points of reverent concord through the seven methods for extinguishing disputes. Fascicle 100 Read Ru-Yi's translation Our plain-English translation and study notes for fascicle 100 of the 瑜伽師地論 — the treatise's final fascicle: complete — closing matters of monastic discipline in its entire nine-matter totality, then closing foundational-treatise matters and the treatise's own grand summary of all one hundred fascicles down to its very last line. The entire 100-fascicle Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra translation is now complete.