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Abhidharma-kośa Śāstra


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A systematic Sarvāstivāda Buddhist treatise composed by (or attributed to) Vasubandhu in the period before he embraced Mahāyāna Buddhism. The work comprises two parts: verse (Abh.k. kārikā) and prose commentary ...

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Abhidharma-kośa Śāstra
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev) Length: 54 words

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