Thu, 23 Jul 2009
Abhidharma Online
One of my prized books is the four volume transaltion of the Treasury of Abhidharma (Abhidharmakosha). The abhidharma is a systematized presentation of the teaching of the Buddha and the Treasury is a relatively short presentation of it. The abhidharma contains a discussion of many obscure points of Buddhist philosophy. It's hard to summarize abhidharma because there's so much of it. But Dhagpo Kagyu Ling has produced a summary of Abhidharma that's pretty good. And this article gives a biography of Vasubandhu, the author of the Treasury of Abhidharma.
