 Click to enlarge | ABHIDHARMASAMUCCAYAby Asanga, trans. By Walpola Rahula & Sara-Boin Webb360 pp, notes, glossary, index, cloth. #AB - regular price $ 75.00 There are two systems of Abhidharma according to the Tibetan tradition, the lower and the higher. The lower system is taught in the Abhidharmakosa, while the higher system is taught in this book--the two books form a complementary pair. Asanga is the founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. His younger brother Vasubandhu wrote the Abhidharmakosa before Asanga converted him to Mahayana Buddhism. The Samuccaya follows the traditional prose question and answer style of the older Pali Abhidharma texts. Rahula's excellent translation was based on Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan. More ... |
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