Abhidharma-samuccaya

The Abhidharma-samuccaya (Sanskrit; Wylie: mngon pa kun btus; English:

Translations of
"Compendium of Abhidharma") is a Buddhist text composed by Asanga. The
Abhidharma-samuccaya
Abhidharma-samuccaya is a complete and systematic account of the
abhidharma. English Compendium of
Abhidharma
According to Traleg Rinpoche, the Abhidharma-samuccaya is one of Asanga's
Sanskrit Abhidharma-samuccaya
most essential texts and also one of the most psychologically oriented. It
Chinese 大乘阿毘達磨集論(T)
provides a framework, as well as a general pattern, as to how a practitioner is to
大乘阿毗达磨集论(S)
follow the path, develop oneself and finally attain Buddhahood.[1] It presents the
path according to the Yogachara school of Mahayana Buddhism.[1] Korean 대승아비달마집론
(RR: Daeseung-
abidalma-jiplon)
Tibetan མངོན ་པ་ན་བ ས་
Contents (Wylie: mngon pa kun
Mental factors btus;
Contemporary scholarly analysis THL: ngönpa küntü)
Notes Glossary of Buddhism
Sources
Further reading

Mental factors
The second chapter of this text enumerates fifty-one mental factors (Sanskrit: caitasikā), divided into the following categories:[2]

five ever-functioning factors (Wylie: kun 'gro lnga, Chinese: 遍行心所, Korean: 변행심소),
five ascertaining (object-determining) ones (yul nges lnga, 別境心所, Korean: 별경심소),
eleven virtuous (or constructive) emotions (dge ba bcu gcig, 善心所, Korean: 선심소),
six root disturbing emotions and attitudes (rtsa nyon drug, 煩惱心所, Korean: 번뇌심소),
twenty auxiliary disturbing emotions (nye nyon nyi shu, 隨煩惱心所, Korean: 수번뇌심소),
four changeable factors (gzhan 'gyur bzhi, 不定心所, Korean: 부정심소).

Contemporary scholarly analysis

Contemporary scholar Achim Bayer asserts that the thought of different sections of the Abhidharma-samuccaya might be
heterogenous. For example, the important term ālayavijñāna (Eight Consciousnesses") appears not more than six times, with all
six occurrences in the "Lakṣaṇasamuccaya" section, i.e. within in the first third of the work.[3]

Notes
1. Traleg Rinpoche (1993), p.1.
2. Berzin, Alexander. "Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors" (https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/
science-of-mind/mind-mental-factors/primary-minds-and-the-51-mental-factors). studybuddhism.com.
 3. Bayer (2010), p.11.

Sources
Bayer, Achim (2010). The Theory of Karman in the Abhidharmasamuccaya. (https://www.scribd.com/doc/103210
218/Bayer-Achim-Theory-of-Karman-in-the-Abhidharmasamuccaya) Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist
Studies.
Berzin, Alexander (2006). Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors (http://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-stu
dies/science-of-mind/mind-mental-factors/primary-minds-and-the-51-mental-factors). Study Buddhism.
Traleg Rinpoche (1993). The Abhidharmasamuccaya: Teachings by the Venerable Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche.
The Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute.[1] (http://lirs.ru/lib/Abhidharmasamuccaya,Traleg,1998.pdf)
Multilingual edition of the first chapter of Abhidharmasamuccaya in the Bibliotheca Polyglotta (https://www2.hf.ui
o.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=volume&vid=82)

Further reading
Asanga, Abhidharmasamuccaya: The Compendium of the Higher Teaching (Philosophy), translated by Walpola
Rahula, Sara Boin-Webb, Asian Humanities Press, 2001
Dan Martin, 'Gray Traces: Tracing the Tibetan Teaching Transmission of the mNgon pa kun btus
(Abhidharmasamuccaya) Through the Early Period of Disunity' in Helmut Eimer and David Germano (ed.), The
Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism, Leiden: Brill, 2002

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