A Study On The Thought Of "Twenty Thoughts Of Vijbana-Vada"

The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada uses “crash equals to establishment” as a way to refute heretics and Hinayana’s “ten heckles” and overturns the opinion saying that there is external being outside our Minds,bringing out the core idea of “Mind is sunyata”.As one important classic of Mahayana Vijbana-vada,The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada is closely related to other classics such as Vijnaptimatratasiddhi-sastra or The Thirty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada.Comparing The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada to those other classics,the thesis to some extent has a clear view of the development of Vijbana-vada ideas.First,the introduction part includes the significance of the thesis,domestic and overseas research status as well as the research methods on The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada.Then follows with the discussion of the basic contents of The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada and its historical background.The contents mainly includes the holistic summarization of the related texts,interpretations,and the past commentaries of The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada;The background part is about the introductions of the main Buddhist classics and the prominent opinion trends popular around the era when The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada was preached.The discussions on the ideas of The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada form the essential part of this thesis,taking the indications and contents of The Notes of The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada as reference,the analysis of the original sentences of The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada as narration emphasis,the proof methods of Hetu-vidya which contains Vasubhandu’s way of refuting heretics and Hinayana’s “ten heckles” and overturning the opinion saying that there is external being outside our Minds as the path to claiming the core idea od “Mind is sunyata”.Eventually the thesis analyzes the relation between The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada and some relevant Mahayana classics which is the innovation of this thesis.It includes two parts: First,the comparisons between The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada and The Thirty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada is to clarify their reciprocity as well as their similarities and differences in the issues such as “the alternation of consciousness”,thus unfolding the discussions on the differences between “ancient vijbana-vada’ and “current Vijbana-vada”.The following comes the comparisons between The Twenty Thoughts of Vijbana-vada and Vijnaptimatratasiddhi-sastra to illuminate that the latter to some extent inherits and develops the idea of “breaking self-grasping” of the former.