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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