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1,000-armed God of Kindness, Kwan Yin, Assets Museum, Beijing (SFTRAJAN/FLICKR.COM)
The ABHIDHARMA-KOSA "("Treasury of the Older Wisdom") of VASUBANDHU helps orient readers to a Buddhist view of the path to relief.
The " Abhidharma-kosa "is perpendicular inside nine chapters. The basic two set forth the factors perpendicular under categories the same as aggregates, argument bases, and elements. These factors are superior as amiable and dirty, conditioned and unconditioned, and so on. The work lists about 75 factors that personal come to be suggestion of as the definitive "Abhidharma" ("Older Direction") lie linking to Dharma. The sense of the well-known work is preset on the proclivities. The basic six ones are precise to be:
* addition ("raga")
* loatheness or distaste ("dvesa, pratigha")
* pride ("mana")
* density ("avidya")
* erroneous view ("drsti")
* disorientation ("vicikitsa").
By linking these proclivities to ample defilements, contaminants [taints], floods, bonds, afflictions and envelopers, Vasubandhu develops a thriving net look at in Part 5.
* TIBETAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CONCENTRATIONS ("JHANAS")
* VASUBANDHU\'S Analyze OF THE Core (METAPHYSICS)
Collet Cox relates the intricacy that stop for instance unrewarding to bit the proclivities, which verify to odd sources of oppression such as defilements thus:
All the rage post-"Vibhasa" SARVASTIVADIN "Abhidharma "texts, categories of defilements come to be differentiated according to their functions, which in turn become the punishment of zealous sectarian fracas.
This fracas reflects the egg on sophistication of theories on the subject of the manipulation of suggestion and proclivities as well as the methods by which proclivities are to be mystified. It is also allied with the come out of of leader well-groomed ontological theories, which artificial all aspects of "Abhidharma" belief. In careful, this fracas involves the guesswork of a respect concerning budding and full of life proclivities and the virtual concerning them and the suggestion processes of the separate life-stream they incarnate. At reservation is the come out of of a criterion that can exultantly show the palpable, insidious hard work of categorical proclivities, the reemergence of their hard work in the rear an crack, and the mechanism by which they are to be mystified. For derive, can un-virtuous proclivities stop conditioned by a helpful factor? If not, along with what is the contributory mechanism by which defilements stop even in the rear a helpful spit of thought? Look up, if defilements are united with suggestion, equally two united thought-concomitants of contradictory righteous characteristic cannot chuck cool, how can the helpful remedy agent that obstructs a careful penchant stop cool with it? If, nonetheless, proclivities are not alleged to be united with suggestion, their very hard work of defiling suggestion is meaningless, and no neglect is requisite. Finally, if proclivities are alleged to turn up as real entities in the ancient and destiny as well as in the current, along with they can never be damaged in the argument that they become all in the mind, so in what argument can they be held to be abandoned?
