Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma By Most Venerable Professor Dr. K.L. Dhamma Joti

(IBC February 19, 2008)

Book Title: Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma
3rd Edition, 710 pages +
Author: Venerable Professor KL Dhammajoti
Published in Hong Kong by Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong 2007
ISBN: 978-988-99295-1-9
Date of Press: September 2007
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The Sarvāstivāda is one of the most important Buddhist Schools during the period of Abhidharma development. An understanding of its doctrinal development is indispensable for gaining a proper perspective of the development in Buddhist thoughts in India as a whole. Its doctrine of sarvāstitva — the tri-temporal existence of dharma-s — had had tremendous impact on the doctrines of not only the so called Abhidharma schools, but also those of the Mahāyāna; either directly or indirectly, positively or negatively. Accordingly, even those aspiring to acquire insight into the sources of Mahāyāna thoughts ought to be sufficiently acquainted with the fundamental doctrines of the school.

This publication is one of the first in English – if not actually the first – that deals comprehensively with all the major Sarvāstivāda doctrines within a single volume. The first edition was published in 2002 by the Centre of Buddhist Studies, Sri Lanka. The present third edition is a substantial revision of the second edition published in 2004. Besides a comprehensive index, a glossary of Sanskrit terminologies has also been added in this edition for the convenience of those unfamiliar with the Sanskrit language. Venerable KL Dhammajoti, PhD., is presently Endowed Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he was Professor and Head of Department of Buddhist Literary Sources of the Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. For the past many years, he has been specializing in Abhidharma studies and early Indian Yogācāra.

Contents:

Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Abhidharma – Its Origin, Meaning and Function
Chapter 2: The Ābhidharmika – Standpoint, Scope and Methodology
Chapter 3: The Sarvāstivāda School and Its Notion of the Real
Chapter 4: The Abhidharma Treatise of the Sarvāstivāda
Chapter 5: Sarvāstivāda and Temporality
Chapter 6: Theory of Causality I: The Six Causes
Chapter 7: Theory of Causality II: The Four Conditions and the Five Fruits
Chapter 8: The Category of Matter (rūpa)
Chapter 9: The Category of Thought and Thought-concomitants (citta-caitta
Chapter 10: Theories of Knowledge
Chapter 11: The Categories of the Conditionings Disjoined from Thought (citta-viprayukta-saṃskāra)
Chapter 12: Defilement
Chapter 13: The Doctrine of Karma
Chapter 14: Karma and the Nature of Its Retribution
Chapter 15: The Path of Spiritual Progress
Chapter 16: The Unconditioned (asaṃskṛta) Dharma-s
Select Bibliography
Glossary
Index

This publication is sponsored by The Li Chong Yuet Ming Buddhist Studies Fund of the Li Ka Shing Foundation