Buddhist commentaries

Jikji () is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document whose title translates as "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests' Zen Teachings". Printed during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1377, it is the world's oldest extant book printed with movable metal type. UNESCO confirmed Jikji as the world's oldest book printed with movable metal type in September 2001 and inscribed it on the Memory of the World Register.

The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification; ; Sinhala: විශුද්ධි මාර්ගය), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka. It is a manual condensing and systematizing the 5th century understanding and interpretation of the Buddhist path as maintained by the elders of the Mahavihara Monastery in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

The Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra (Entering the Bodhisattva Conduct) or Bodhicaryāvatāra (Entering the Bodhi Way; Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ ''byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa;'' Chinese: 入菩薩行論), is a Mahāyāna Buddhist text written c. 700 CE in Sanskrit verse by Shantideva (Śāntideva), a Buddhist monk at Nālandā University in India which is also where it was composed.

encyclopedic Mahayana Buddhist treatise and commentary on the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra

thumb|Tibetan illustration of Asaṅga receiving the AA from [[Maitreya in the Tuṣita heaven.]]

major Tiantai Buddhist doctrinal treatise based on lectures given by Zhiyi in 594, compiled and edited by Guanding

discourse on Yogacara by the early Tang dynasty monk Xuanzang; framed around Vasubandhu's work Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā

Samantapāsādikā (also spelled Samantapāsādika) is a commentary (Aṭṭhakathā) on the Vinaya Pitaka of the Theravada Tipitaka. It was composed by Buddhaghosa in the 5th century CE, based primarily on the Sinhalese Mahā-aṭṭhakathā (Great Commentary), with references also to the Mahāpaccarī and Kurundī commentaries.

Chan Buddhist poem attributed to the Third Chinese Chán Patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan

subcommentaries on the Pali Canon

The Madhyamakāvatāra () is a text by Candrakīrti (600–c. 650) on the Mādhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy. Candrakīrti also wrote an auto-commentary to the work, called the Madhyamakāvatārabhasya.