Initiation Into The Treasury Of Abhidharma
Author: Venerable Professor K L Dhammajoti
Publisher: The Buddha-Dharma Centre of Hong Kong
(Hong Kong, 2024). pp. 349++ ISBN: 978-988-76863-2-3

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Contents
Preface
Abbreviations

Part I: Introduction
1. The Sarvāstivāda School: its development and various component members
2. The Sūtra origins of the Abhidharma
(i) mātikā/mātṛkā
(ii) Abhidharma-kathā, vyākaraṇa, vedalla and upadeśa
3. Impact of Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika thoughts on the development of Buddhist doctrines
4 Abhidharma as primarily a soteriology
5. Abhidharma as methodology developed for the ascertainment of the Sūtra
6. Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika Dharmavāda
6.1. Definition of the real or existent (sat)
6.2. A dharma, its intrinsic nature and intrinsic characteristic, and common characteristic
6.2.1. Inseparability of a dharma’s intrinsic nature and its intrinsic characteristic and function
6.2.2. Intrinsic characteristic and common characteristics of dharmas
7. The Five-category subsumption of seventy-five classes of dharmas
8. The predecessors of the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya as a manual
9. The organizational structure of the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya
10. The affiliation of the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya

Part II: Summary and Discussion
Chapter One: Exposition on the Elements (Dhātu-nirdeśa)
Chapter Two: Indriya-nirdeśa
Chapter Three: Loka-nirdeśa
Chapter Four: Karma-nirdeśa
Chapter Five: Anuśaya-nirdeśa
Chapter Six: Mārgapudgala-nirdeśa
Chapter Seven: Jñāna-nirdeśa
Chapter Eight: Samāpatti-nirdeśa
Chapter Nine: *Pudgalavāda-pratiṣedha

Part III: An Annotated Translation of Chapter One: Dhātu-nirdeśa
Select Bibliography
Sanskrit-English Glossary-Index

Index