![]() ![]() Because of this, Chinese commentators like Pu Guang do not see Vasubandhu as either a Vaibhāṣika nor as a Sautrāntika. However, Vasubandhu often presents and defends the Vaibhāṣika Abhidharma position on certain topics (contra Sautrāntika). The Vaibhāṣika master Samghabhadra considered that Vasubandhu had misrepresented numerous key points of Vaibhāṣika Abhidharma in the Kośa, and saw Vasubandhu as a Sautrāntika (upholder of the sutras). The Kośa includes an additional chapter in prose refuting the idea of the "person" ( pudgala) favoured by some Buddhists of the Pudgalavada school. In the Kośa, Vasubandhu presents various views on the Abhidharma, mainly those of the Sarvāstivāda- Vaibhāṣika, which he often criticizes from a Sautrāntika perspective. ![]() Over time, the Abhidharmakośa became the main source of Abhidharma and Sravakayana Buddhism for later Mahāyāna Buddhists. This text was widely respected and used by schools of Buddhism in India, Tibet and East Asia. The Kośa summarizes the Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses and then comments on (and often criticizes) it. ![]() Commentary on the Sheath of Abhidharma), Abhidharmakośa ( Sanskrit: अभिधर्मकोश) for short (or just Kośa or AKB), is a key text on the Abhidharma written in Sanskrit by the Indian Buddhist scholar Vasubandhu in the 4th or 5th century CE. ![]()
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