Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Triṃśikā
Vasubandhu's 'Thirty Verses on Vijñaptimātra' — systematic Yogācāra exposition of consciousness, the three natures, and the eight consciousnesses
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Triṃśikā (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | Undefined |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Disembodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Triṃśikā
c. 4th-5th century. Vasubandhu's mature Yogācāra period, post-conversion from Sarvāstivāda.
Space
Triṃśikā
Gandhāra / north India.
Matter
Triṃśikā
Sanskrit verse treatise (30 verses, ~3 pages of Sanskrit text — but vast commentary tradition).
Observer
Triṃśikā
Mature post-conversion Vasubandhu. The observer is the Yogācāra philosopher articulating the school's mature systematic philosophical-psychological position.
Energy
Triṃśikā
Yogācāra-systematic energies. The thirty verses compress an entire philosophical system into extraordinarily condensed form.
Information
Triṃśikā
Thirty verses (no surviving auto-commentary). The commentary tradition (Sthiramati, Dharmapāla, Xuanzang's compilation 'Vijñaptimātratā-siddhi-śāstra') extends the philosophical apparatus enormously.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Principal classical Yogācāra source; foundational for the East Asian Faxiang / Hossō schools. Through Xuanzang's translation and his magnum-opus compilation 'Vijñaptimātratā-siddhi-śāstra' (Chéng Wéishí Lùn, 659), the Triṃśikā became the central text of the East Asian Yogācāra-Buddhist tradition; the Trimśikā remains the foundational classical Yogācāra source.