Abhidharma-kośa (the compendium of Abhidharma) is a key text in verse written in Sanskrit by Vasubandhu. It summarizes Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses. The text was widely respected, and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet and the Far East. The abhidhamma is the name of one of the three pitakas, or baskets of tradition, into which the Tipitaka (Pali; Sanskrit: Tripitaka), the canon of early Buddhism, is divided. ... Sanskrit ( , ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ... Vasubandhu (Sanskrit. ... The Sarvastivada (roughly, Proclaiming that all exist) --a reference to one of the distinguishing doctrines of the school, the existence of dharmas in all of the three times (past, present, and future). ... Relief image of the bodhisattva Kuan Yin from Mt. ... Template:Buttism Buttism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion, a philosophy, and a system of psychology. ...

Vasubandhu wrote a commentary to his own work, called the Abhidharma-kośa-bhāsya. In it, he critiques the interpretations of the Sarvāstivādins and others of the tenets he presented in that work. This commentary includes an additional chapter in prose refuting the idea of the "person" (pudgala) favoured by some Buddhists.

Ancient translations of the Abhidharma-kośa were made into Chinese by Paramārtha (564-567 CE) and by Xuán Zàng(651-654 CE). Other translations and commentaries exist in translations exist in Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian, and modern translations have been made into English, French and Russian. DLXIV in Roman numerals. ... Events Livva I succeeds Athanagild as king of the Visigoths. ... A portrait of Xuanzang Xuanzang (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsüan-tsang; CantoneseIPA: jyn4tsɔŋ1; CantoneseJyutping: jyun4zong1) (602-644/664) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk. ... Events End of Yazdegard IIIs attempts to drive out the Saracens. ... Events King Reccaswinth issues Visigothic law code. ...

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• Partial text of the Abhidharma-kośa in Sanskrit, with Chinese translations by Paramārtha and Xuanzang (from Peking University)