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There are two systems of Abhidharma, according to Tibetan tradition, lower and higher. The lower system is taught in the Abhidharmakosa, while the higher system is taught in the Abhidharmasamuccaya. Thus the two books form a complementary pair. Asanga, author of the Abhidharmasamuccaya, is founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. His younger brother Vasubandhu wrote the Abhidharnmakosa before Asanga converted him to Mahayana Buddhism. Yet the Kosa is written in verse, usual for Mahayana treatises, while the Samuccaya follows the traditional prose and answer style of the older Pali Abhidharma texts. Walpola Rahula, in preparing his 1971 French translation of this Mahayana text from the Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan, has brought to bear on its many technical terms his extensive background and great expertise in the Pali canon. J. W. de Jong says in his review of this work:"Rahula deserves our gratitude for his excellent translation of this difficult text." Sara Boin-Webb is well known for her accurate English translations of Buddhist books from the French. She has now made accessible in English Rahula's French translation, the first into a modern language, of this fundamental text.
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9780895819413 | Asian Humanities Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: There are two systems of Abhidharma, according to Tibetan tradition, lower and higher.
Paperback:
9780875730202, titled "Abhidharmasamuccaya: The Compendium of the Higher Teaching, Philosophy" | Jain Pub Co, January 1, 2015, cover price $60.00
Product Description: André Bareau (1921–1993) was one of the foremost scholars of Buddhism of his generation. Dissatisfied with piecemeal and contradictory information on early Buddhist schools, he set out to construct a coherent and authoritative overview, which has remained the standard treatment in the field since its appearance in 1955...read more
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9780824835668 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, May 31, 2013, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: André Bareau (1921–1993) was one of the foremost scholars of Buddhism of his generation.
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9780824833534 | 1 edition (Univ of Hawaii Pr, December 1, 2008), cover price $27.00
Product Description: The Suramgamasamadhi Sutra is one of the most important Mahayana Buddhist scriptures. It is ancient, probably composed close to the beginning of the first millennium CE. Its authorship is unknown but as an expression of Mahayanist spirituality it was accepted in India, its land of origin, as well as in China, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780700710249 | Routledge, June 1, 1999, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: The Suramgamasamadhi Sutra is one of the most important Mahayana Buddhist scriptures.
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