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A public, season-bucketed editorial log. Updates only when papers, book chapters, or methodology pages are added or meaningfully revised. Not a marketing feed.

Autumn 2026

  • · The Dazhidulun five-layer reader edition live — the seventh volume of the Prajñā lane. A five-layer edition based on Kumārajīva's hundred-fascicle 大智度論, T25n1509, the sole base text. Fascicles 35–100, which comment on the eighty-nine chapters from Chapter 2, Recompense, to Chapter 90, Entrustment, form the Commentary on the Remaining Chapters; it is carved into units by chapter, with the longer chapters further divided into sub-units. Every unit has Source-Text, Vernacular, Exposition, Apparatus, and Heart-Essence layers; the Source-Text remains in classical Chinese, while the other four layers are available in Chinese and English. visit →
  • · The Avataṃsaka Sūtra five-layer reader edition live — the opening of the Huayan lane and its first work. A five-layer edition based on Śikṣānanda’s eighty-fascicle, thirty-nine-chapter 大方廣佛華嚴經, T10n0279, distributed across the seven locations and nine assemblies: an ordinary chapter forms one unit, a chapter of exceptional bulk is divided along the scripture’s own natural sub-structure, and with the imperial preface there are one hundred forty-eight units in all. Every unit has Source-Text, Vernacular, Apparatus, Exposition, and Heart-Essence layers; the Source-Text remains in classical Chinese, while the other four layers are available in Chinese and English. visit →
  • · The Abhidharmakośabhāṣya five-layer reader edition live — the opening of the Abhidharma lane and its first work. A five-layer edition based on Xuanzang's thirty-fascicle, nine-chapter 阿毘達磨俱舍論, T29n1558, carved into twenty-nine units by chapter. Every unit has Source-Text, Vernacular, Exposition, Apparatus, and Heart-Essence layers; the Source-Text remains in classical Chinese, while the other four layers are available in Chinese and English. Paramārtha's T29n1559 serves as the collation witness, the separately transmitted root verses T29n1560 fix the verse boundaries, and Saṅghabhadra's Nyāyānusāra T29n1562 and Abhidharmasamayapradīpikā T29n1563 are recorded alongside as counter-witnesses. The Exposition carries the lineage of Puguang's T41n1821, Fabao's T41n1822, and Yuanhui's T41n1823, with the surviving fascicles of Shentai's X53n0836 recorded where extant; divergent readings among the commentators are attributed and recorded without adjudication. Shi Huijing — translation and annotation. visit →

Summer 2026

  • · The Visuddhimagga five-layer exposition edition live — the Theravāda lane's complete treatise, replacing the retired per-paragraph surface. Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga (“The Path of Purity”), in Pāli, twenty-three chapters, gathering the whole path of liberation under the three trainings of virtue, concentration, and wisdom. The book follows the treatise's own order of twenty-three chapters; within each chapter, units follow the sequence of the text — 133 units in all, each in five distinct layers (source · vernacular · exposition · apparatus · doorway); the source layer stands in Pāli, the other four are bilingual, mirrored section by section. Two systems of loci: 〔Vism chapter.§〕 follows the received chapter-and-section numbering and 〔CSCD §NN〕 is the paragraph number of each unit's source column; the chapters with this edition's own collated text (chapters 7 and 8) also carry PTS page anchors 〔V i N〕. All twenty-three chapter names are transplanted verbatim from the edition's own preface. visit →
  • · The Vimuttimagga five-layer reader edition live — the second work on the Theravāda lane, which becomes a shelf of two the same day. The Vimuttimagga (“Path to Liberation”), composed by the arahant Upatissa and transmitted in Saṅghapāla's Chinese translation (T32n1648, twelve fascicles, twelve chapters). This is a full layered exposition of the treatise — not a retranslation: 150 units, each in five distinct layers (source · plain reading · exposition · apparatus · essence); the source layer stands in Chinese, the other four layers are bilingual, mirrored section by section. All twelve chapter names are transplanted verbatim from the edition's own preface; the continuous reads are cut one volume per chapter, and the whole-work source witness stands on a page of its own. visit →
  • · The Sūtra on Contemplating the Buddha of Measureless Life reader edition live — the third work on the Pure Land shelf, the Contemplation Sūtra; the three Pure Land sūtras now stand together. The received fascicle-front attribution names Kālayaśas under the Liu Song · Taishō T12n0365 · one fascicle. The sūtra begins with confinement in the palace and Vaidehī’s question, proceeds through the sixteen contemplations, turns to the three grades and nine grades of birth, and closes with benefits, title, reception, and entrustment. Eighteen units share one Chinese Source Text and open into four authored reading layers in Chinese and English. The eighteen units comprise one unit for the prefatory praise, title, and introduction; sixteen units for the sixteen contemplations; and one unit for benefits and transmission. The *Imperially Composed Praise of the Buddha of Measureless Life* is preserved at the head of the fascicle and kept distinct from the scripture translated by Kālayaśas; the received source supplies neither author nor date, and this edition does not invent them. No second Chinese translation of this sūtra is used; T360, T366, and T367 serve only as same-axis scriptural parallels, not as alternate translations of T365. Shandao’s T1753 is the principal line-by-line mirror and Zhiyi’s T1750 the witness; divergence remains attributed. Where scripture and the ancient masters do not answer, the limit is stated; no modern Sanskrit reconstruction, conflated wording, or unattested historical attribution is inserted. visit →
  • · The Sūtra of Measureless Life reader edition live — the second work on the Pure Land shelf, and the longer of the two. The fascicle front names Kang Sengkai under the Cao Wei; this edition records that attribution as it stands and does not treat it as a ruling on historical authorship. Four translations and one assembly are read passage by passage against the base text: Lokakṣema's T12n0361, Zhi Qian's T12n0362, Faxian's T12n0363, and Bodhiruci's Assembly of the Tathāgata of Measureless Life within the Ratnakūṭa (T11n0310); where the vows number twenty-four rather than forty-eight, and where a vow passage divides or runs long and short, the recensions stand side by side and nothing is carried silently into the base text. Thirteen units in five bilingual layers, and each of the three ancient mirrors keeps its own office: Jingxing's Linked-Meaning Exposition and Praise is the line-by-line mirror, Huiyuan's Commentary stands as the expository witness, and Tanluan's work on the Verses on Aspiration for Birth serves as the doctrinal mirror of the whole — Tanluan annotates Vasubandhu's verses rather than glossing this sūtra phrase by phrase, so he is brought in where the doctrine corresponds and is never counted as a fourth mirror. The three do not always agree on Dharmākara's stage, the patiences, or the exclusion clause on heinous acts and slander: what can be settled is attributed, and what cannot is kept side by side. visit →
  • · Three Madhyamaka treatises live on one day — the Madhyamaka shelf opens whole. Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the Middle (T30n1564, four fascicles, twenty-seven chapters, with Qingmu's commentary) in twenty-eight units; Nāgārjuna's Twelve Gate Treatise (T30n1568, one fascicle, twelve gates) in thirteen; Āryadeva's Hundred Treatise (T30n1569, two fascicles, ten chapters, with Vasu's commentary) in eleven — all in Kumārajīva's Chinese, fifty-two units in five bilingual layers, each treatise opening at a preface that stands as a unit of its own. The three arrive together because the school stands on the three together, in the order the school itself counts them: root treatise, second, third. Each keeps its own form rather than borrowing a sibling's: the Middle Treatise marks at every turn who composes the verse, who explains it, and who narrates the transmission in the preface; the Twelve Gate Treatise names no separate commentator, so none is imported, and its units keep the word gate rather than being renamed chapters; the Hundred Treatise separates Āryadeva's root statements from Vasu's explanations by the transmitted markers the text itself carries, and is not forced into the verse-and-commentary shape of its sibling. What is refuted is not worldly cause and effect but the fixed grasping laid upon cause, effect, dharma, self — and upon emptiness itself, which is never rendered as nihility. The Hundred Treatise's closing chapter refutes emptiness set up as a graspable thing; it is not a return to intrinsic existence. Where a second commentary survives and where none does is recorded case by case rather than claimed of all three: no second Chinese chapter-by-chapter or gate-by-gate commentary survives for the Hundred Treatise or the Twelve Gate Treatise, and the apparatus records that absence plainly rather than manufacturing a collation to fill it, while the Middle Treatise's verses are also expounded in the *Prajñāpradīpa* (T30n1566) and the Madhyamaka commentary T30n1567, which are set alongside only where they actually correspond and are never used to correct one another. visit →
  • · The Awakening of Faith in the Great Vehicle reader edition live — the first work on the newly opened Tathāgatagarbha shelf. Paramārtha's one-fascicle recension (T32n1666), attributed to Aśvaghoṣa, is the base text, carved into sixteen units in five bilingual layers, with Zhikai's preface standing as a unit of its own. The whole treatise rests on one sentence — “what is spoken of as dharma means the mind of sentient beings” — and that mind has an aspect of suchness and an aspect of arising and ceasing while remaining the one mind. Two lenses are set side by side without adjudication: Fazang's Commentary reads the treatise line by line, Wonhyo's reads its structure; where they agree the text is lit, and where they differ the difference is recorded rather than forced into a single reading. Not one character of the base text is altered — the 131 variant readings collated at the end are recorded and never used to amend the source layer, and where this recension writes ālaya one way and Śikṣānanda's writes it another, each form stays with its own recension. The ancient catalogues disagree about how this treatise was transmitted, and that disagreement is recorded, not settled. visit →
  • · The Kṣitigarbha Sūtra reader edition live — the second work on the Original Vow shelf. Śikṣānanda's two-fascicle recension (T13n0412) is the base text, carved along the sūtra's own thirteen chapters, in five bilingual layers. This sūtra exists in a single translation, so the Apparatus topic on cross-recension collation is empty in all thirteen chapters and says so plainly rather than filling the space with another text; what is read alongside are sūtras of the same honored one — the Daśacakra-kṣitigarbha Sūtra, the Daśacakra Sūtra, and the Sūtra of Divining the Requital of Good and Evil Karma. The line-by-line lens is Lingcheng's Outline and Commentary, the first Qing-dynasty lens in this series, its period marked as it stands and never merged into the layer of the masters of Tang and Song; the Guiding Thread and the Outline are its own front matter, three numbers from one hand and not three differing commentaries. Six passages of this sūtra consist of lists of names — the hells, the ghost kings, the nineteen buddha-names, the radiances, and the benefits of two chapters — and every one is rendered item by item, never abridged, never gathered under “and so forth.” visit →
  • · Fahua Wenju (Words and Phrases of the Lotus) reader edition live — the three great Tiantai treatises now stand together. From the Lotus Sutra's first “Thus” to its final “withdrew,” Zhiyi resolves the text phrase by phrase, each phrase carried through four passes — causes and conditions, the teachings, origin and trace, contemplation of mind — before the next is taken up; privately recorded by Guanding and set in order by the monk Lang in the Tianbao wuzi year. Sixty-three units in five bilingual layers, read through Zhanran's Wenjuji. visit →
  • · The Original Vow axis opens — the Medicine Buddha Sūtra reader edition live. Xuanzang's one-fascicle recension is the base text, collated against the other three of the sūtra's four translations (Dharmagupta's, Yijing's Seven-Buddha recension, and fascicle 12 of the Consecration Sūtra); where the vows divide differently or run long and short, the recensions stand side by side and nothing is carried silently into the base text. Nine units in five bilingual layers, read through Taehyŏn's Ancient Traces — the only surviving commentary that glosses Xuanzang's recension phrase by phrase; the two anonymous Dunhuang commentaries gloss other recensions, and are cited always with the recension they gloss named. visit →
  • · The Pure Land axis opens — the Amitābha Sūtra reader edition live. Kumārajīva's one-fascicle recension, carved into twelve units after Kuiji's threefold outline, in five bilingual layers. Of its some eighteen hundred characters only one passage tells the reader what to do — hear the name, hold fast to it, single-minded and undisturbed; the other eleven say why that one passage is worth trusting. Two mirrors of carrying forward stand recorded side by side without adjudication: Kuiji's Comprehensive Praise commentary takes the way of exposition, Shandao's Liturgical Hymns the way of ritual practice. visit →
  • · Fahua Xuanyi (Profound Meaning of the Lotus) reader edition live — one of the three great Tiantai treatises. Zhiyi opens the fivefold profound meaning (name, substance, purport, function, teaching) from the five characters of the Lotus title, with seven passes as the general gateway, recorded by Guanding; forty units in five bilingual layers, read through Zhanran's Shiqian. visit →
  • · Mohe Zhiguan (Great Calming-and-Contemplation) reader edition live — the first treatise on the Tiantai axis and the corpus's first work composed by a Chinese master. Zhiyi's one-summer exposition at Yuquan, recorded by Guanding; twenty-seven units in five bilingual layers, read through Zhanran's Fuxing. visit →
  • · The Tiantai axis opens — the Lotus and Golden Light sūtras as per-chapter five-layer bilingual readers, alongside The Tiantai Exposition; the two sūtras read through the Yogācāra lens of Kuiji's Fahua Xuanzan and Huizhao's commentary. visit →
  • · The Han Yogācāra shelf complete — ten works as five-layer reading editions (verbatim · essence · plain · exposition · apparatus, zh+en): Twenty Verses, Thirty Verses, Madhyānta-vibhāga, Mahāyāna-saṃgraha, Cheng Weishi Lun, Saṃdhinirmocana, Sūtrālaṃkāra, Yogācārabhūmi (17 grounds), Laṅkāvatāra — plus the Hundred Dharmas lexicon visit →
  • · Diamond Sūtra reader edition live — Kumārajīva's base text, 32 divisions in four layers, bilingual; alongside the Heart Sūtra's re-grounded nine-segment five-layer edition visit →
  • · School-level apparatus live — Yogācāra and Prajñā general prefaces, the federated glossary (renderings co-existing across works), lineage chart, collected bibliography; every work now opens with its own authored essence visit →
  • · The Eight Movements — English edition of 《指月八部曲》 live — eight parts, 91 chapters, chapter-for-chapter alongside the Chinese visit →
  • · Six Practice Gates · PRAṆIDHĀNA (願) Volume Six opened — Part I, Pāli Roots, three bilingual papers (P01–P03) visit →
  • · Six Practice Gates · KṢAMĀ (懺) Volume Three sealed — eight parts, 20 bilingual papers, from Vinaya disclosure to the repentance of non-arising visit →
  • · Visuddhimagga · Ten Recollections per-section translation live — chapters VII–VIII, 11 sections in parallel Pāli / Chinese / English visit →

Spring 2026

  • · Bilingual Chinese and English editions available — parallel pages now link to their language counterparts
  • · Heart Sūtra plain-language reader and home-page reading entrance available
  • · Pointing at the Moon Octalogy appendices available — Scholarly Footnote Index A and Glossary C
  • · Heart Sūtra whole-text recitation mode and Xuanzang translator profile available
  • · Heart Sūtra v0.3 reader edition available — twenty-five translated segments with translation study notes

Winter 2026

  • · Pointing at the Moon Octalogy v1.0 published — eight parts, ninety-one chapters, and seven transitions adapted from ninety-one research papers
  • · Pointing at the Moon Octalogy navigation and two-way paper–chapter links available
  • · Translation shelf available — the Hundred Dharmas, Heart Sūtra, and Theravāda Visuddhimagga readers open
  • · Machine-readable indexes and open-source links available — llms.txt, index.json, and robots.txt
  • · All ninety-one Octalogy research papers published across Series 1–8