Abhidharma Manual of The Abhidharma-samuccaya of Yogācāra School (Mahāyānābhidharma-samuccaya) - Paperback

The Abhidharma-samuccaya is a systemic explication of the Abhidharma teaching of all core principles of Buddhism. It is one of the important sourcebooks of the Yogācāra and Vij?ānavāda schools. The treatise contains two divisions with four sections in each, is a distillation of the larger contents of the same two divisions of the voluminous Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra. A large part of the contents illuminates also teachings common to the Śrāvakayāna and Pratyekabuddhayāna, just when it explains principles that apply to Bodhisattvas. The text analyses the three classes of phenomena, the thirty-seven requisite factors of enlightenment, full scope of the mental factors, insight meditation and so on, with many different ways to examine them, to efficaciously apply them to practice.