abhidharmakośa

Tibetan: ཆོས་མངོན་པའི་མཛོད་
Tibetan (Wylie): chos mngon pa’i mdzod
Tibetan (phonetics): cho ngon pe dso
English term: The Treasury of Abhidharma
English definition: Composed by Vasubhandu (4th-5th centuries), it is “the lower one” of the two major Indian Abhidharma treatises, the “higher one” being The Compendium of Abhidharma by his half-brother Asanga. Vasubhandu’s work summarizes the Abhidharma as presented by the Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika schools, and sometimes criticizes it from a Sautrāntika perspective. The text is divided into eight topics: 1) the elements, 2) the faculties, 3) the world, 4) actions, 5) subtle increasers, 6) the path and the individual, 7) wisdom, and 8) meditative equipoise. Along with the text itself, Vasubhandu also composed The Commentary on the Treasury of Abhidharma (Abhidharmakośabhāṣya), an autocommentary that expanded on the points presented in the Treasury.