Abhisamayalankara

Also known as Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra, Ornament of Realization, Ornament for Realization, Ornament of Clear Realizations

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

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Title of the work
Philosophical perspective
The Eight Categories and Seventy Topics
The Three Knowledges
The Four Practices
The Resultant Truth Body
Ancillary Topics
Twenty Sangha
Definitive and Interpretable Scriptures
Form and Formless Realm Absorptions (Trances)
Commentarial literature
In India
In Tibet
In East Asia
In the West
Bibliography
References
Sources
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In Chinese

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

The ' "Ornament of/for Realization[s]", abbreviated AA', is one of five Sanskrit-language Mahayana śastras which, according to Tibetan tradition, Maitreya revealed to Asaṅga in northwest India circa the 4th century AD. (Chinese tradition recognizes a different list of Maitreya texts which does not include the AA.) Those who doubt the claim of supernatural revelation disagree (or are unsure) whether the text was composed by Asaṅga himself, or by someone else, perhaps a human teacher of his.