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| − | The '''Compendium of Abhidharma''' (Skt. ''[[Abhidharmasamuccaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མངོན་པ་ཀུན་བཏུས་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[mngon pa kun btus]]''; Tib. ''[[ngönpa küntü]]'') was composed by [[Asanga]], one of the '[[Six Ornaments]]', the greatest [[Buddhist]] authorities of {{Wiki|Ancient India}}. ''[[Abhidharma-samuccaya]]'' is a complete and systematic account of the [[Abhidharma]]. It is included among the so-called "[[Thirteen great texts]]", which form the core of the curriculum in most [[shedra]]s and on which [[Khenpo Shenga]] provided commentaries. | + | The '''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]''' (Skt. ''[[Abhidharmasamuccaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མངོན་པ་ཀུན་བཏུས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[mngon pa kun btus]]''; Tib. ''[[ngönpa küntü]]'') was composed by [[Asanga]], one of the '[[Six Ornaments]]', the greatest [[Buddhist]] authorities of {{Wiki|Ancient India}}. ''[[Abhidharma-samuccaya]]'' is a complete and systematic account of the [[Abhidharma]]. It is included among the so-called "[[Thirteen great texts]]", which [[form]] the core of the {{Wiki|curriculum}} in most [[shedra]]s and on which [[Khenpo Shenga]] provided commentaries. |
==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
Latest revision as of 03:20, 30 August 2014
Asanga
The Compendium of Abhidharma (Skt. Abhidharmasamuccaya; Tib. མངོན་པ་ཀུན་བཏུས་, Wyl. mngon pa kun btus; Tib. ngönpa küntü) was composed by Asanga, one of the 'Six Ornaments', the greatest Buddhist authorities of Ancient India. Abhidharma-samuccaya is a complete and systematic account of the Abhidharma. It is included among the so-called "Thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.
Commentaries
Translations
- Asanga, Abhidharmasamuccaya: The Compendium of the Higher Teaching (Philosophy), translated by Walpola Rahula, Sara Boin-Webb, Asian Humanities Press, 2001
See Also
Further Reading
- Dan Martin, 'Gray Traces: Tracing the Tibetan Teaching Transmission of the mNgon pa kun btus (Abhidharmasamuccaya) Through the Early Period of Disunity' in Helmut Eimer and David Germano (ed.), The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism, Leiden: Brill, 2002
