Abhidharma-samuccaya
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Abhidharma-samuccaya (Sanskrit; Tibetan Wylie: mngon pa kun btus; English: Compendium of Abhidharma) is a Buddhist text composed by Asanga. Abhidharma-samuccaya is a complete and systematic account of the Abhidharma.
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. It presents the path according to the Yogachara school Mahayana Buddhism.
Mental factors
- See also:Mental factors
The second chapter of this text enumerates fifty-one Mental factors (Sanskrit: Caitasika), divided into the following categories:
- five ever-functioning factors (kun-’gro lnga, 遍行心所, Korean: 변행심소),
- five ascertaining (object-determining) ones (yul-nges lnga, 別境心所, Korean: 별경심소),
- eleven virtuous ( or constructive emotions (dge-ba bcu-gcig, 善心所, Korean: 선심소),
- six root disturbing emotions and attitudes (rtsa-nyon drug, 煩惱心所, Korean: 번뇌심소),
- twenty auxiliary disturbing emotions (nye-nyon nyi-shu, 隨煩惱心所, Korean: 수번뇌심소),
- four changeable factors (gzhan-‘gyur bzhi, 不定心所, Korean: 부정심소).
