The Treatise on the Elucidation of the Knowable AND The Cycle of the Formation of the Schismatic Doctrines

The Treatise on the Elucidation of the Knowable by the Tibetan master 'Phags-pa was composed in 1278 as a ""manual of Buddhism"" for crown prince Zhenjin, second son of the Mongol emperor Qubilai. ""The Cycle of the Formation of the Schismatic Doctrines"" is based on Xuanzang's seventh-century Chinese translation (""Yibuzonglunlun"") of the ""Samayabhedoparacanacakra"", an essay by the first-century scholar-monk Vasumitra on the various schismatic doctrines that began to arise soon after the Buddha's lifetime. This work presents two titles in one volume.