Skip to main content
#
jain
Shopping Cart
m Empty
  
HomeBook CatalogSubmission GuidelinesContact
Abhidharmasamuccaya - Softcover
Price:
$40.00

by Asanga
French Translation by Walpola Rahula
English Translation from French by Sara-Boin Webb

Details:

There are two systems of Abhidharma, according to Tibetan tradition, lower and higher. The lower system is taught in the Abhidharmakosa, while the higher system is taught in the Abhidharmasamuccaya. Thus the two books form a complementary pair.

Asanga, author of the Abhidharmasamuccaya, is founder of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. His younger brother Vasubandhu wrote the Abhidharmakosa before Asanga converted him to Mahayana Buddhism. Yet the Kosa is written in verse, usual for Mahayana treatises, while the Samuccaya follows the traditional prose question and answer style of the older Pali Abhidharma texts.

Walpola Rahula, in preparing his 1971 French translation of this Mahayana text from the Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan, has brought to bear on its many technical terms his extensive background and great expertise in the Pali canon. J. W. de Jong says in his review of this work:"Rahula deserves our gratitude for his excellent translation of this difficult text."

Sara Boin-Webb is well known for her accurate English translations of Buddhist books from the French. She has now made accessible in English Rahula's French translation, the first into a modern language, of this fundamental text.

"...an important book for any serious library in Buddhist Studies..." --Choice

2015
360 pp., notes, glossary and index.
ISBN: 978-0-87573-020-2
$40 - Softcover 
$32 - eBook 
(Order from Google Play)

add to cart buy now

Price:
$40.00
add product
buy now

by Vasubandhu
French Translation by Louis de La Vallee Poussin
English translation from French by Leo M. Pruden

Price:
$40.00
add product
buy now

by Vasubandhu
French Translation by Louis de La Vallee Poussin
English translation from French by Leo M. Pruden

Price:
$40.00
add product
buy now

by Vasubandhu
French Translation by Louis de La Vallee Poussin
English translation from French by Leo M. Pruden

Price:
$40.00
add product
buy now

by Vasubandhu
French Translation by Louis de La Vallee Poussin
English translation from French by Leo M. Pruden

  
Please type either the title, the ISBN including the dashes (e.g. xxx-x-xxxxx-xxx-x), the author's name, or a keyword in the search window in order to conduct a search.
Search
 
Site Mailing List
Register with this site to receive email notifications, updates and new site information. Enter your email address and press the submit button.

Email Address

Email list signup

Jain Publishing Company, Inc.
Fremont, CA 94539

Email: mail@jainpub.com
Copyright 1995-2024, Jain Publishing Company, Inc.
Contents, prices, publication dates, and manufacturing specifications subject to change without notice.