Seventy-five dharmas of the Abhidharma-kosha
The Abhidharma-kosha identifies seventy-five dharmas (elements) that the Sarvāstivāda school "held were substantially existent (dravyasat) and endowed with intrinsic nature (svabhava)".[1] These are:[2][3][note 1]
- the five sense organs (indriya),
- the five sense objects,
- nonmanifest materiality (or "imperceptible forms") (avijnapti-rupa),
- mind (citta),
- forty-six concomittant mental factors (caitta),
- fourteen non-concurrent formations (aka "conditioned forces dissociated from thought" (Buswell) or "elements neither substantial forms nor mental fuctions" (Goodman)) (citta-viprayukta-samskara), and
- three unconditioned factors (or "non-created elements") (asamskrta-dharma)
Three unconditioned factors
The three unconditioned factors identified in the Abhidharma-kosha are:
- space, akasa
- extinction through intellectual power, pratisamkhya-nirodha
- extinction due to lack of a productive cause, apratisamkhya-nirodha
Notes
- ↑ In this list, the primary translations are from Buswell or Rigpa Wiki. The translated terms in quotes are from Steven Goodman unless otherwise noted.
References
- ↑
Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Sarvāstivāda - ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Seventy-five dharmas of the Abhidharma-kosha
- ↑ Goodman 2020, Appendix 1.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Goodman, Steven D. (2020), The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening: An In-Depth Guide to the Abhidharma (Apple Books ed.), Shambhala Publications
Fourteen non-concurrent formations
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