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Commentary on the Awakening of Faith
Wonhyo’s reading of the Awakening of Faith as a key that unites all Mahayana teachings in the One Mind; it shaped Fazang and East Asian Buddhism.
Introduction
Wonhyo, a monk of the Korean kingdom of Silla, wrote this commentary on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, a short treatise traditionally attributed to Ashvaghosha but probably composed in China in the sixth century; a related set of notes (Byeolgi) accompanies it. Wonhyo reads the text as a key that reconciles the two main currents of Mahayana thought, Madhyamaka and Yogacara. The One Mind has two aspects, “suchness” and “arising and ceasing”, which are neither identical nor different. Fazang drew on Wonhyo’s commentary for his own, and it counts as one of the three classical commentaries on the text, alongside those of Jingying Huiyuan and Fazang.
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