Abhidharma-kosa
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The Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (, lit. Commentary on the Treasury of Abhidharma), Abhidharmakośa () for short (or just Kośa or AKB), is a key text on the Abhidharma written in Sanskrit by the Indian Buddhist scholar Vasubandhu in the 4th or 5th century CE. The Kośa summarizes the Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses and then comments on (and often criticizes) it. This text was widely respected and used by schools of Buddhism in India, Tibet and East Asia. Over time, the Abhidharmakośa became the main source of Abhidharma and Sravakayana Buddhism for later Mahā
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- Author
- Vasubandhu
- First published
- 1968
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Abhidharma, Tibetan language, Texts
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- Author
- Vasubandhu
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- Abhidharmakośabhāṣya
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- अभिधर्मकोशभास्य
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Background
- Content Overview
- 1: The Exposition on the Elements (''[[Skandha#Eighteen Dhātus and Four Paramatthas|dhātu]]-nirdeśa'')
- 2: The Exposition on the Faculties (''[[indriya]]-nirdeśa'')
- 3: The Exposition on the World (''loka-nirdeśa'')
- 4: The Exposition on Karma (''karma-nirdeśa'')
- 5: The Exposition on the Underlying Tendencies (''anuśaya-nirdeśa'')
- 6: The Exposition on Paths and Persons (''mārgapudgala-nirdeśa'')
- 7: The Exposition on Wisdom (''jñāna-nirdeśa'')
- 8: The Exposition on Meditative Attainment (''samāpatti-nirdeśa'')
- 9: The Refutation of the View of a Self (''atmavāda-pratiṣedha'')
- The Text and its Translations
- Commentaries
- Indian Commentaries
- Chinese Commentaries
- Tibetan Commentaries
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Printed sources
- Web-sources
- External links
The Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (, lit. Commentary on the Treasury of Abhidharma), Abhidharmakośa () for short (or just Kośa or AKB), is a key text on the Abhidharma written in Sanskrit by the Indian Buddhist scholar Vasubandhu in the 4th or 5th century CE. The Kośa summarizes the Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses and then comments on (and often criticizes) it. This text was widely respected and used by schools of Buddhism in India, Tibet and East Asia. Over time, the Abhidharmakośa became the main source of Abhidharma and Sravakayana Buddhism for later Mahāyāna Buddhists.
In the Kośa, Vasubandhu presents various views on the Abhidharma, mainly those of the Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika, which he often criticizes from a Sautrāntika perspective. The Kośa includes an additional chapter in prose refuting the idea of the "person" (pudgala) favoured by some Buddhists of the Pudgalavada school.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abhidharma-kosa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.