- Ornament of Abhidharma
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Message from the Dalai Lama
- Special Acknowledgments
- Publisher’s Acknowledgment
- Contents
- General Editor’s Preface
- Translator’s Introduction
- Technical Note
- Ornament of Abhidharma: A Commentary on the Verses of the Abhidharmakośa
- Part I. Elements
- 2. Conditioned Phenomena
- 3. The Nature of the Five Aggregates
- 4. Aggregates, Bases, and Elements
- 5. Categories of Elements
- Five that are demonstrable and so on (29–31)
- The investigative and analytical (32–33)
- Five possessing a focal object and so on (34–36)
- Three types of derivation (37)
- Five such as substantial existence (38–39)
- Objects to be eliminated by the path of seeing (40)
- View and nonview (41–47)
- Three, such as those known by two and so on (48)
- Part II. Faculties
- 6. The Nature of the Faculties
- 7. The Generation of Conditioned Phenomena
- 8. The Generation of Mental factors
- How nonphysical states arise (23):
- Definition of minds and mental factors
- Substantial versus nominal
- The presentation of realms and levels
- Which mental factors occur in the retinue of which consciousness
- The meaning of the term
- Determinate mental factors (24–27):
- Universal mental states
- Virtuous mental states
- Afflicted mental states
- Nonvirtuous mental states
- Specific-afflicted mental states
- Indeterminate mental factors (28–31)
- Differentiating similar mental factors (32–34)
- 9. Fourteen nonassociated formative factors
- Overview (35–36)
- Obtainment (37–39)
- Nonobtainment (39–40)
- Homogeneity (41)
- The state of nondiscernment (41)
- The meditative attainment of nondiscernment (42)
- The meditative attainment of cessation (43–44)
- The faculty of lifeforce (45)
- The four characteristics (45–47)
- Collection of nouns, predicated phrases, and letters (47–48)
- 10. Causes, Results, and Conditions
- The six causes (49–55):
- Active cause
- Coemergent cause
- Homogeneous cause
- Concomitant cause
- Omnipresent cause
- Cause of karmic maturation
- The five results (55–61):
- The four conditions (61–66):
- Objective condition
- Dominant condition
- Causal condition
- Immediately preceding condition
- Desire-realm minds and form-realm minds (67–68)
- Formless-realm minds and uncontaminated minds (68–71)
- Twenty minds (71–73)
- Part III. Cosmology
- 11. Classification and Attributes of Sentient Beings
- 12. Birth of Sentient Beings
- 13. Twelve Links of Dependent Origination
- Existence of sentient beings (18–19)
- Dependent origination in three phases (20–25)
- How the twelve links are subsumed in the three afflicted states (26)
- Classification of cause and effect (26–27)
- Explaining the meaning of the sūtras (28)
- Continuous dependent origination (28–36)
- Metaphors for the links (36–37)
- 14. Birth, Food, and Death
- 15. The Physical Cosmos
- 16. The Domains of Sentient Beings
- 17. Units of Measurement and Other Matters
- Part IV. Karma
- 18. The Theory of Action
- 19. Detailed Classification of Indicative Form
- 20. Elaboration of Karma Found in the Sūtras: Part 1
- Classification in three divisions (45–48)
- Karma to be experienced (49–59)
- Classification in four, such as white and black (59–63)
- Silence and purification (64)
- Positive and negative action (65–66)
- Ten virtuous and ten nonvirtuous actions (66–86):
- Indicative and nonindicative form
- Motivation
- Basis
- Nature of action
- The number of karmic paths that arise simultaneously with intention
- How they are possessed
- Results
- Karma and its results (87–94)
- Appropriate and inappropriate karma (94)
- Projecting karma and completing karma (95)
- 21. Elaboration of Karma Found in the Sūtras: Part 2
- The three obscurations (96–97)
- The five heinous acts (98–105)
- The five near-heinous acts (106–12)
- Merit, action, and basis (112–25):
- The outcome of generosity
- How to give
- Excellent fields of generosity
- Heavy and light karma
- The basis of merit and action
- The giving of Dharma
- Twelve branches of scripture
- The three conducive factors (125)
- The three karmas engaged by cognition (126–27)
- Part V. Negative Tendencies
- 22. The Nature of Negative Tendencies
- 23. The Typology of Negative Tendencies
- Pervasive and nonpervasive negative tendencies (12–13)
- Those focusing on the contaminated and uncontaminated (14–16)
- How they increase (17–18)
- Those that are nonvirtuous or neutral (19)
- The roots of nonvirtuous and neutral states (20–22)
- How one possesses them (23–28)
- How phenomena {and minds} become their objects (29–32)
- The sequence of their arising (32–33)
- Causes giving rise to them (34)
- 24. The Taxonomy of the Contaminants and So On in the Sūtras
- 25. How Negative Tendencies Are Eliminated
- Part VI. Paths and Beings
- 26. The Four Noble Truths
- 27. The Stages of Realization
- 28. Classifications of Ārya Beings
- 29. Specific Attributes of Ārya Beings
- Specific level and path (45–49)
- Specific elimination and nonarising (50)
- Specific principle of result (51–53)
- The wheel of Dharma (54)
- Specific realm and classification (55–57)
- Specific type and degeneration (57–58)
- Specific upgrade of intellectual faculty (58–62)
- Sevenfold classification of ārya beings (63–64)
- Twofold classification of ārya beings (64–65)
- 30. The Path of Realization
- Part VII. Epistemology
- 31. Perseverance, Knowledge, and View
- Distinguishing perserverance, knowledge, and view (1)
- The nature and types of knowledge (2–7)
- Set number (8–9)
- Aspects of knowledge (10–14)
- Levels and the basis of knowledge (14–15)
- Knowledge as foundations of mindfulness (16)
- Focal objects of knowledge (16–18)
- How knowledge is possessed (19)
- How knowledge is obtained (20–27)
- 32. The Unique Qualities of a Buddha
- 33. Shared Qualities of a Buddha
- Part VIII. Meditative Attainment
- 34. Absorptions and Formless States
- Definitions of the absorptions and formless-realm states (1–4)
- Classification of the absorptions and formless-realm states (5–6)
- Branches of the absorptions and formless-realm states (7–13)
- How the absorptions and formless states are obtained (14)
- Specific attributes (15–21)
- Access to higher levels (22–23)
- Classifications of concentration (23–28)
- 35. Qualities and Attributes of Concentration
- 36. Conclusion: The Purpose of Engaging in Virtue
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Sanskrit–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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