ABHIDHARMAKOSA-BHASYA OF VASUBANDU (4 Vols)

Vasubandhu (ca.350 -430 A.D.), was born in Purusapura, Gandhara. He is next to Asanga. His half brother and the most prominent personage from the Yogacara school, Vasubandhu (ca.350-430 A.D. He was originally from the Sravakayana school, which the Sarvastivadins had founded. His reputation for writing numerous treatises made him a household name when Asanga convinced him to join the Mahayana. Vasubandhu is considered the greatest systematizer of Buddhism. He is also one of six great ornaments-six great commentators on the Buddha’s teachings. Even though in the Kosa Vasubandhu seems to be generally partisan to the “Hinayana”-Sautrantikas, he too was evidently open-minded, of which fact the Kosa is a testimony, and accordingly he did not seem to have become exclusively partisan to the tenets of any group as such be it those of Hinayana or Yogacara-Sautrantika or Sarvastivada.
Vasubandhuis Abhidharmakosa Bhasya (ca. Vasubandhuis Abhidharmakosa Bhasya (ca. Its great value as an insightful critique and critical revaluation all of the basic Sar-vastivada doctrines has been added to this. Since its publication, it has been used extensively as a standard textbook to understand not only the Abhidharma doctrines, but all fundamental Buddhist doctrines. Paramartha translated the text into Chinese in 563 A.D. while Hsuan–tsang translated it in 651 to 654. Hsuan–tsang’s disciple Piu–kuang says that the Abhidharmakosa Bhhasya was hailed in India as the book of intelligence. The Kosa is a textbook of fundamental importance that Buddhist students have treasured in China, Japan, and other Far East countries.