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Category：Teachings on the Tathāgatagarbha Reads：
The Saṃyuktāgama Sūtra, in fifty fascicles, is an important Buddhist classic that encompasses the practice methods from the first fruit to the fourth fruit. Whether one studies the Mahāyāna dharma or the Hīnayāna dharma, this sūtra is the most fundamental and important Buddhist teaching upon which Buddhist practitioners should rely. The excerpted content of this sūtra is close to contemplative practice (vipaśyanā-caryā) in daily life, being both fundamental and comprehensive and meticulous, simple, easy to understand, and plainly clear, making it easy to begin practice accordingly. This sūtra provides detailed explanations of the impermanence, emptiness, suffering, and non-self of the five aggregates (pañca-skandha), as well as how to engage in contemplative practice and introspect upon oneself in daily life, subdue afflictions, how to cultivate meditative concentration (samādhi), how to attain liberation, and so forth; therefore it is essential content that must be studied for the actual practice of the eradication of the view of self (satkāya-dṛṣṭi-prahāṇa).
