Fourteen formations not concurrent with mind

Fourteen formations not concurrent with mind (Skt. citta-viprayukta-saṃskāra; T. ldan min 'du byed bcu bzhi ལྡན་མིན་འདུ་བྱེད་བཅུ་བཞི་) are identified in the Abhidharma-kosha, where they are listed among the seventy-five dharmas. These are:

1. prāpti (T. thob pa) - possession

2. aprāpti (T. ma thob pa) - dispossession

3. sabhāgatā (T. skal mnyam / ris mthun) - homogeneity, same status or similar class

4. asaṃjñāsamāpatti (T. 'du shes med pa'i snyoms 'jug) - meditative attainment of non-discernment

5. asaṃjñika (T. 'du shes med pa) - state of non-discernment

6. nirodhasāmapatti (T. 'gog pa'i snyoms 'jug) - meditative attainment of cessation

7. jīvitendriya (T. srog gi dbang po) - life-force

8-11. four characteristics of conditioned phenomena

8. jāti (T skye ba) - birth, origination

9. sthiti (T. gnas pa) abiding, continuance, maturation, etc.

10. jarā (T. rga ba) - aging, decay, senescence, etc.

11. anityatā (T. mi rtag pa) - impermanence, death, desinence

12-14. nouns, phrases and letters

12. nāma-kāya (T. ming gi tshogs) - nouns

13. pada-kāya (T. tshig gi tshogs) - phrases

14. vyañjana-kāya (T.yi ge'i tshogs) - letters

Note that there are ten additional non-concurrent formations mentioned in Asanga's Compendium of Abhidharma

Alternate translations

• formations not concurrent with mind
• non-concurrent formations
• "conditioned forces dissociated from thought" (Buswell)
• "elements neither substantial forms nor mental functions" (Goodman))

Sources

• Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University 
• Chim Jampaiyang (2019), Jinpa, Thupten, ed., Ornament of Abhidharma: A Commentary on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa, translated by Coghlan, Ian James (Apple Books ed.), Library of Tibetan Classics 
• Mipham Rinpoche (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications 
• Thupten Jinpa, ed. (2017), Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Volume 1: The Physical World, translated by Coghlan, Ian James, Wisdom Publications 

Further reading

• Erik Pema Kunsang (translator), Light of Wisdom, Volume 1 (Rangjung Yeshe Publications: 1999), pages 184-185.

External links

• ldan_min_'du_byed_bcu_bzhi, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
• Fourteen non-concurrent formations, Rigpa Shedra Wiki