SubjectMatter:The Abhidharma-ko?a organizes and condenses primarily Sarv?stiv?da Abhidharma teachings, but not without being critical, and hence adopting positions associated with other Buddhist schools, such as the Sautr?ntikas. It includes detailed analysis of the actions of consciousness in its relationship to the environment, as well as the transformations that occur in the process of meditation practice, containing treatment of most of the philosophical topics contained in the Abhidharma treatises
Keywords:chos mngon mdzod/Treasury of Knowledge/Abhidharmakosa/阿毗達磨俱舍論; Asanga/無著; Vasubandhu/世親; Great Exposition School/Sarvastivada/說一切有部; Sutra School/Sautrantika/Sautrantika Followers of Scripture/經量部; khams drug/six realms/界; phung po/aggregate/skandha/蘊; Karma/業; Samadhi/定; sems sems 'byung/minds and mental factors; consciousness; external forms; Seven Treatises of Higher Knowledge; substantial existence; four seals; eighteen sub-schools