Abhidharma-samuccaya

Translations of
Abhidharma-samuccaya
EnglishCompendium of Abhidharma
SanskritAbhidharma-samuccaya
Chinese大乘阿毘達磨集論(T)
大乘阿毗达磨集论(S)
Japanese大乗阿毘達磨集論
Korean대승아비달마집론
(RR: Daeseung-abidalma-jiplon)
Tibetanམངོན་པ་ཀུན་བཏུས་
(Wylie: mngon pa kun btus;
THL: ngönpa küntü)
VietnameseĐại Thừa A Tỳ Đạt Ma Tập Luận
Glossary of Buddhism

The Abhidharma-samuccaya (Sanskrit; Wylie: mngon pa kun btus; English: "Compendium of Abhidharma") is a Buddhist text composed by Asaṅga. The Abhidharma-samuccaya is a systematic account of Abhidharma. According to J. W. de Jong it is also "one of the most important texts of the Yogācāra school."[1] According to Frauwallner, this text is based on the Abhidharma of the Mahīśāsaka tradition.[2]

The text exists in Chinese, Tibetan and a reconstructed Sanskrit version. Its Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Canon) number is 1605. In the Tibetan Tengyur, it is number 4049 in the Derge Tengyur and 5550 in the Peking Kangyur.

According to Traleg Rinpoche, the Abhidharma-samuccaya is one of Asanga's most essential texts and also one of the most psychologically oriented. It provides a framework, as well as a general pattern, as to how a practitioner is to follow the path, develop oneself and finally attain Buddhahood.[3] It presents the path according to the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism.[3]

  1. ^ Review of Rahula, Walpola Abhidharmasamuccaya by J. W. de Jong in Asanga; Boin-Webb, Sara; Rahula, Walpola (2001), pp. 291-299. [Original French published in T'oung Pao, LIX (1973), pp. 339-46. Reprinted in Buddhist Studies byJ.W. dejong, ed. Gregory Schopen, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1979, pp. 601-8.]
  2. ^ Frauwallner, Erich. Kidd, Sophie Francis (translator). Steinkellner, Ernst (editor) 1996. Studies in Abhidharma Literature and the Origins of Buddhist Philosophical Systems. SUNY Press. p. 144.
  3. ^ a b Traleg Rinpoche (1993), p.1.