The Essentials of the Eight Traditions, composed in the thirteenth century by Gyonen, offers concise explanations of the eight major schools of Japanese Buddhism then in existence.

'The Candle of the Latter Dharma', composed in the ninth century by Saicho, founder of the Japanese Tendai School, discusses the state of monastic practice in the Age of the Latter Dharma (mappo).

Two titles in one volume. Extracanonical works.