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Summer 2026

  • · 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