Fourteen non-concurrent formations
Fourteen non-concurrent formations (T. ལྡན་མིན་འདུ་བྱེད་བཅུ་བཞི་, ldan min 'du byed bcu bzhi) are identified in the Abhidharma-kosha, where they are listed among the seventy-five dharmas:
- 1. prāpti (T. thob pa) - possession
- 2. aprāpti (T. ma thob pa) - dispossession
- 3. sabhāgatā (T. skal mnyam / ris mthun) - homogeneity, same status or similar class
- 4. asaṃjñāsamāpatti (T. 'du shes med pa'i snyoms 'jug) - meditative attainment of non-discernment
- 5. asaṃjñika (T. 'du shes med pa) - state of non-discernment
- 6. nirodhasāmapatti (T. 'gog pa'i snyoms 'jug) - meditative attainment of cessation
- 7. jīvitendriya (T. srog gi dbang po) - life-force
- 8-11. four characteristics of conditioned phenomena
- 12-14. nouns, phrases and letters
- 12. nāmakāya (T. ming gi tshogs) - nouns
- 13. padakāya (T. tshig gi tshogs) - phrases
- 14. vyañjanakāya (T.yi ge'i tshogs) - letters
Note that there are ten additional non-concurrent formations mentioned in Asanga's Compendium of Abhidharma
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Chim Jampaiyang (2019), Jinpa, Thupten, ed., Ornament of Abhidharma: A Commentary on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa, translated by Coghlan, Ian James (Apple Books ed.), Library of Tibetan Classics- Mipham Rinpoche (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications
- Thupten Jinpa, ed. (2017), Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Volume 1: The Physical World, translated by Coghlan, Ian James, Wisdom Publications
Further reading
- Erik Pema Kunsang (translator), Light of Wisdom, Volume 1 (Rangjung Yeshe Publications: 1999), pages 184-185.
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