Treasury of the Abhidharma with Commentary (Abhidharmakosa with Bhashya) (Unknown) - Page 13

Of the Second Part

This is the sequence of subjects for this work by Vasubandhu,

accompanied by the Clear Meaning commentary;

be it known as the table of contents for the final four chapters of the Treasury.

The "Clear Meaning" (Sanskrit: Sphuṭārthā) is the title of a famous commentary by the scholar Yashomitra, which explains Vasubandhu’s original verses.

The Fifth Section of the Treasury

(Instruction on the Latent Tendencies)
term: "Anuśaya" — latent tendencies. These are underlying mental pollutants or "sleeping" predispositions that trigger active emotional turmoil (kleshas).


The six latent tendencies in brief	760
These become seven through the divisions of attachment	761
Sensual desire itself as a latent tendency	762
Affliction as a latent tendency	764
Two types of attachment	764
Attachment to existence term: "bhava-rāga" — the desire for continued life in the higher, meditative heavens	765
Ten latent tendencies in the Abhidharma	765
These same tendencies expanded to ninety-eight	765
Thirty-six belonging to the Realm of Desire	766
Thirty-one belonging to the Realm of Form	768
Thirty-one belonging to the Formless Realm	868
Among these, how many are abandoned through insight?
term: "darśana-heya" — mental errors removed the moment one "sees" or realizes Buddhist truths
How many are abandoned through meditation?	768
term: "bhāvanā-heya" — deep-seated emotional habits removed only through long-term practice
The five types of "views" and their nature	772
The four perversions and their nature	777
The "perversions" (viparyāsa) are the mistakes of seeing the beautiful in the ugly, the permanent in the fleeting, etc.
For whom are they abandoned, and for whom are they not?	779
The types of pride: seven and nine varieties	782


Which types of pride must be abandoned?	783
Eleven universal latent tendencies within their own realm	785
Among the latent tendencies, how many have "tainted" objects?	786
term: "sāsrava" — tainted or "with outflows"; refers to things that keep one bound to the cycle of rebirth
How many have "untainted" objects?	786
How many are unwholesome?	793
How many are neutral?	793
How many are "roots" of the unwholesome, and how many are not?	795
Which are the "neutral roots"?	795
The characteristics of answering questions	800
In which past things do latent tendencies not reside?
In which present or future things?	801
The four theories of the Sarvāstivāda	805
term: "Sarvāstivāda" — the 'All-Exists' school of Buddhism, which debated how things exist in the past, present, and future
Among those four, the third theory is the best	808
Phenomena of the three realms abandoned by insight into
suffering and its origin, and by meditation	816
The five types of phenomena across the three realms	822
In consciousness that perceives the faculty of pleasure,
how many latent tendencies reside?	824