Saṃyuktābhidharmahṛdaya
Saṃyuktābhidharmahṛdaya (C. Za apitan xin lun 雜阿毘曇心論). "Heart of Abhidharma with Miscellaneous Additions." A treatise on the Sarvastivada Abhidharma.[1]
"The treatise was based on Dharmaśresthin’s Abhidharmahṛdaya and includes material adapted from the Abhidharma-mahāvibhāṣā."[1] It has eleven chapters, on such topics as the elements (dhatu), conditioned factors (samskara), karma, etc.[1]
The text was composed by Dharmatrāta, an abhidharma scholar from the Sarvastivada school.[1] "This Dharmatrāta is often designated in the scholarly literature as Dharmatrāta II, to distinguish him from the Dārṣtāntika Dharmatrāta I," who was one of the four great ābhidharmikas who was said to have participated in the fourth Buddhist council.[1]
- The text was probably composed during a third major stage in the development of Sarvāstivāda abhidharma literature, following the Jñānaprasthāna and its six traditional ancillary treatises, or “feet” (pādaśāstra), and then the major Vibhāṣā exegeses; this stage eventually culminated in the composition of Vasubandhu’s celebrated Abhidharmakośabhāsya. [1]
The text is available only in a Chinese translation, which was made by Saṃghavarman in 434 CE.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Saṃyuktābhidharmahṛdaya