English Translations and Scholarship
Wei Tat translated the Ch'eng Wei-Shih Lun into English for the first time in Hong Kong in 1973. This translation is based upon Louis de La Vallée Poussin's early translation of the Cheng Weishi Lun into French (Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi: La Siddhi de Hiuan-Tsang). Wei's translation is now out of print and difficult to find. More recently, Francis Cook made a new English translation of the text for the Numata Center's Taisho Tripitaka translation effort.
To date, the following English translations of the Cheng Weishi Lun have been rendered:
- Wei Tat, Ch'eng Wei-Shih Lun: Doctrine of Mere-Consciousness, Hardcover. 1973 ISBN unknown
- Francis H. Cook, Three Texts on Consciousness Only, Hardcover. 1999 ISBN 1-886439-04-4
Dan Lusthaus of the University of Missouri has written a modern commentary on the Cheng Weishi Lun.
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