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]
- five sense faculties,
- five sense objects,
- avijñaptirūpa (imperceptible forms, nonmanifest materiality),
- citta (mind),
- forty-six concomittant mental factors (caitta),
- fourteen non-concurrent formations (aka "conditioned forces dissociated from thought" (Buswell) or "elements neither substantial forms nor mental functions" (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:
- akasa - space
- pratisamkhya-nirodha - extinction through intellectual power
- apratisamkhya-nirodha - extinction due to lack of a productive cause,
Notes
- ↑ In this list, the translations for terms are from Buswell, Steven D. Goodman, and Rigpa Wiki.
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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