འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.22

intro.22

Although the verse section presents a Madhyamaka position, and despite having parallel treatises attributed to Nāgārjuna, Hakamaya intriguingly suggests the possibility that these verses were an addition of the Yogācāra school. The evidence he provides is that the Bhava­saṅkrānti­sūtra is cited in numerous Yogācāra texts, including the Bodhi­sattva­bhūmi and Sāgara­megha’s commentary on its treatment of the second verse, in which it is interpreted according to the Yogācāra trisvabhāva (three nature) theory,²² and the fact that the sūtra is cited in dialectical treatises to refute the Yogācāra position as the basis of their scriptural authority.²³ Regardless of the question of the sūtra’s history, the verse section is quoted or echoed in many treatises as a definitive statement on the two truths and the nominalist position of phenomena.