

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara
A Practitioner's Guide
Author: Ben Connelly, Norman Fischer, Ben Connelly, Weijen Teng
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Unabridged: 5 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/20/2022
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Buddhism, Philosophy, Metaphysics
Synopsis
In fourth-century India one of the great geniuses of Buddhism, Vasubandhu, sought to reconcile the diverse ideas and forms of Buddhism practiced at the time and demonstrate how they could be effectively integrated into a single system. This was the Yogacara movement, and it continues to have great influence in modern Tibetan and Zen Buddhism.
Vasubandhu's "Thirty Verses" lay out a path of practice that integrates the most powerful of Buddhism's psychological and mystical possibilities. Although Yogacara has a reputation for being extremely complex, the "Thirty Verses" distills the principles of these traditions to their most practical forms, and this book follows that sense of focus; it goes to the heart of the matter—how do we alleviate suffering through shedding our emotional knots and our sense of alienation?
This is a great introduction to a philosophy, a master, and a work whose influence reverberates throughout modern Buddhism.