On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c13.s2.8

v1.c13.s2.8

In a note to the name of Guṇaprabha’s treatise, the “Pien-chên-lun”, mentioned in the above passage Julien restores the Sanskrit original as “Tattvavibhaṅga śāstra”. This seems to show that he had forgotten the restoration of the name, given in translation and in Chinese transcription, which he had made in the Life. There he makes the name to be “Tattvasatya śāstra”, and this restoration has been adopted by subsequent writers although it does not correspond to the translation of the name given by Yuan-chuang and the Chinese annotator. Now the characters which Julien makes to stand for *satya* are *san-ti-sho* (三諦說) for *sandeśa*, and the name of the treatise was evidently Tattvasandeśa or “Exposition of Truth”, Yuan-chuang’s *Pien-chên*, with the word for *śāstra* (*lun*) added.¹ This treatise, which at one time had some fame, expounded the views of the Sarvāstivādin school, but it is unknown to the existing collections.