Wǔ xiàng zhì shí sòng 五相智識頌
Verse on the Five Characteristics of Wisdom-Consciousness by anonymous
About the work
This 1-fascicle anonymous Sòng-period text is a verse-treatise (sòng 頌) on the doctrine of the wǔ xiàng zhì shí — “Five Characteristics of Wisdom-Consciousness,” a Yogācāra-Mahāyāna doctrinal apparatus integrated here into a Huáyán-school doctrinal framework. The 5-fold scheme corresponds to the standard Yogācāra schema of consciousness types but is here cast in Avataṃsaka-tradition idiom.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The work is anonymous and undated; conventional scholarship places it in the broad Southern-Sòng period (the bracket 1100 – 1280 CE adopted here). The work is one of the lesser items in the Sòng Huáyán-school polemical/doctrinal cycle preserved in the Manji Xù zàng jīng.
The work is preserved in the Manji Xù zàng jīng (X1022) collection.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.