Lee, Hsu-Feng. 2017. ‘A Study Of The Śarīrārthagāthā In The Yogācārabhūmi‘. PhD diss., University of Sydney. 290 pp. URI: [PDF]
From the Abstract: The Śarīrārthagāthā (Tǐyì qiétā 體義伽他;‘dus pa’i don gyi tshigs su bcad pa) is a collection of canonical verses with accompanying commentary in the Yogācārabhūmi (Yúqié shī dì lùn 瑜伽師地論; rnal ‘byor spyod pa’i sa), an encyclopedic text of India’s major Mahāyāna philosophical school. […] The initial topics are the place of the Śarīrārthagāthā verses in the formation of Buddhist texts (especially, aṅga classification) and the reason why early verses in particular were collected in the Śarīrārthagāthā. […] Also, three aspects pertaining to the development of the Śarīrārthagāthā have been discussed: (1) the status of the Śarīrārthagāthā in the development of the Yogacārabhūmi, (2) the reason why verse classification (uddāna) is treated differently in the Tibetan version compared to the Chinese and Sanskrit versions, and (3) why were these particular early Buddhist verses selected for inclusion in the Śarīrārthagāthā and not others.