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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
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9780802140234 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $14.00
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9789501710076 | Editorial Kier, July 22, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: El autor, monje budista en quien se sintetiza la disciplina monastica y la universitaria, es la mejor garantia para recorrer el sendero del budismo.
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9780394178271 | Revised edition (Random House Inc, July 1, 1981), cover price $10.01
9780802130310 | Revised edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 1974), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Clarifies the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine by explicating the original Pali text of the Tipitaka
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9780394178233 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $3.95
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