The Awakening of Maha^ya^na Faith， attributed to A/svaghos!a; T 1665.32.575b-583b.One of the most important texts of the emerging indigenous East Asian Maha^ya^na tradition. Written from the perspective of essence and function （tiyong 体用）， this text sought to harmonize the two Indian-derived soteriological positions of the tatha^gatagarbha and a^layavijn~a^na systems into a synthetic vision based on the One Mind in Two Aspects. The Awakening of Faith was to become one of the singlemost influential texts in the development of the East Asian style of Buddha-nature theory. It was studied and commented on repeatedly by a long list of East Asian scholars， including such luminaries as Wonhyo 元晓， Fazang 法藏 and Zongmi 宗密. Although its authorship is attributed to the Indian monk A/svaghos!a 马鸣， modern scholarship is fairly certain that the text was an indigenous East Asian production. In great part due to the commentaries by Wonhyo 元晓， the Awakening of Faith ended up having an unusually powerful influence in Korea， where it may be the most oft-cited text in the entire tradition.